Gabrielle Carey's affectionate life of James Joyce is a story of contingency, vulnerability and sadness
- Written by: Anthony Uhlmann, Professor of English, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Portrait of James Joyce – Jacques-Émile Blanche (1934).National Gallery of Ireland, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsGabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page.
She was a writer who...