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5/31/2020

"Fiction Makes a Better Job of The Truth"? Telling the Erased Story of Lucia Joyce

by Annabel Abbs

A historical novel exposes the complex relationship between historians and sources: "Because Lucia’s own voice had been effectively smothered, most ‘facts’ came from those later responsible for incarcerating her in a series of mental asylums and hospitals. Few sources are genuinely independent, memory is notoriously fickle, and all facts are open to interpretation."