Mrs Mervyn Talboys

The Hon. Mrs Mervyn Talboys is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. She is one of the fantasized sadistic women of "Circe"^[1] who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances - in her case, of sending her an obscene postcard and urging her to soil the correspondence "in an unspeakable manner". Talboys announces that she will horsewhip Bloom - "To dare address me! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets".^[2]

She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown, having been played by Kathleen Barrington and Maire O'Neill at the Abbey Theatre.^[3]

Sources

Ulysses by James Joyce

Characters

Focal	Leopold Bloom Molly Bloom Stephen Dedalus

Other	Mrs Yelverton Barry Mrs Bellingham Milly Bloom Blazes Boylan Denis Breen Josie Breen Nurse Callan Private Carr Bella Cohen Private Compton Punch Costello Myles Crawford Martin Cunningham Garrett Deasy May Golding Dedalus Simon Dedalus Patrick "Paddy" Dignam Dr Dixon Bob Doran Mary Driscoll Lieutenant Gardner Haines Zoe Higgins John Hooper Joe Hynes Corny Kelleher Barney Kiernan Vincent Lynch Bantam Lyons Gerty MacDowell Madden John Henry Menton Buck Mulligan Jack Power Kitty Ricketts George William Russell Cyril Sargent Florry Talbot Mrs Mervyn Talboys The Citizen

Locations

Analysis

Adaptations

Ulysses in Nighttown (1958 play)
Ulysses (1967 film)
Ulysses (1982 broadcast and recording)
Bloom (2003 film)
Ulysses "seen" (2012 graphic novel)

Other

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