A Woman to Know: Nora Barnacle

I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. — James Joyce

I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. — James Joyce

(image via Wikimedia Commons — Nora is pictured bottom right, with James Joyce and their children, Lucia and Giorgio)

She’s one of those “women behind the man” women — and the man is one of the voices that made Modernist fiction.

Nora Joyce…