Tag: James Joyce
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Secret Libraries: Marsh’s Library, Dublin’s Library of Cages, Ghosts and Wounded Books
The Dublin library that locked its readers in cages, and the one that inspired my fictional Darbyshire Memorial Scholars’ Library.
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How Research Saved Me from the Fate of Ophelia
Research has saved me from the fate of Ophelia, but maybe not in the way you might expect. I have mixed feelings about Taylor Swift’s new song, “The Fate of Ophelia,” even as I find myself unable to stop singing it. I’ve been intrigued by Hamlet’s Ophelia for over 40 years because to me, she…
