James Joyce letters court case settled
A [Stanford] university professor has won the right to quote letters between Irish writer James Joyce and his daughter in a book after settling a court case.
Joyce's estate has agreed not to sue Carol Schloss if her research is only made available in the US.
The Joyce estate said it wanted to"protect the privacy and memory" of Lucia, who was mentally ill. [Lucia died in 1982.]
Ms Schloss's book, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, says she was Joyce's muse in his last novel Finnegan's Wake.
To support her theory, the Stanford University scholar made use of Lucia's medical records, European archives containing records on her life and James Joyce's papers in university collections.
But the estate said she would be infringing its copyright on Joyce's image, and several citations were cut from her book to avoid legal action.
But critics then said Ms Schloss's book was short on documentary evidence, so she sued Joyce's grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and estate trustee Sean Sweeney, accusing them of destroying papers and intimidating academics.
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Joyce's estate has agreed not to sue Carol Schloss if her research is only made available in the US.
The Joyce estate said it wanted to"protect the privacy and memory" of Lucia, who was mentally ill. [Lucia died in 1982.]
Ms Schloss's book, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, says she was Joyce's muse in his last novel Finnegan's Wake.
To support her theory, the Stanford University scholar made use of Lucia's medical records, European archives containing records on her life and James Joyce's papers in university collections.
But the estate said she would be infringing its copyright on Joyce's image, and several citations were cut from her book to avoid legal action.
But critics then said Ms Schloss's book was short on documentary evidence, so she sued Joyce's grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and estate trustee Sean Sweeney, accusing them of destroying papers and intimidating academics.