Dotter of Her Father's Eyes [SEP] illustrator
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is a 2012 graphic novel written by Mary M. Talbot with artwork by her husband, Bryan Talbot. It is part memoir, and part biography of Lucia Joyce, daughter of modernist writer James Joyce.
Synopsis.
Mary Talbot recounts her childhood in Preston, Lancashire, focussing upon her relationship with her father, Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Talbot became a scholar herself, working in critical discourse analysis and publishing about language and gender.
The book
's interest in Lucia Joyce was first sparked after she read Mary Talbot's 2012 graphic novel "Dotter of her Father's Eyes". Her book caused some controversy in the Irish press, with critical reviews in the "Irish Times" and "Irish Examiner". The criticism focused on Abbs's allegedly insufficient research regarding Lucia Joyce and her "unsubstantiated speculations" on subjects such as incest, the nature of Lucia Joyce's mental illnesses, and the suggestion that her schizophrenia resulted entirely from her mother's neglect, which was