Ebook: The Dirty Letters to Nora

From the night they left Dublin, Nora and Joyce were almost never apart until his death in 1941. An exception was the year of 1909 when Nora stayed in Trieste while Joyce made two trips back to Ireland. The letters he and Nora exchanged then went straight to the heart of the mysterious bond between them. Nora disliked letter writing. She wrote only when compelled by necessity, courtesy, or force of feeling, as when she had fallen in love. In late July 1909, when Joyce left with Giorgio for Dublin, she did not write to him right away. She was busy with Lucia, who was then a difficult two year old, and with preparing meals for Stanislaus.