Brenda Maddox Books

"Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George." "George's Ghosts looks at Yeats through the lens of the Automatic Script, the trance-like communication with supposed spirits that George conducted during the early years of their marriage. The full transcript of this intense occult adventure was not available until 1992 and remains virtually untouched by biographers. Maddox finds the Script to have been a ghostly form of family planning - as well as one of the most ingenious ploys ever used by a wife to take her husband's mind off another woman."--BOOK JACKET

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.

Lange Zeit galt Nora Barnacle, 1884 in Galway geboren und 1951 in Zürich gestorben, als bloßes "Anhängsel" des berühmten Schriftstellers James Joyce. Brenda Maddox will in der vorliegenden Biographie die These vom ungebildeten Dummchen an der Seite des Künstlers widerlegen. "Dies ist nicht nur die höchst einnehmende Biographie der Familie Joyce- gründlich recherchiert und voller intimer, wenig bekannter Joyceana-, das Buch leistet auch einer Lehrmeinung wesentlichen Vorschub, die zunehmend Bedeutung gewinnt: daß Nora keineswegs eine unbedeutende Begleiterscheinung in der Arbeit ihres Mannes war, sondern die Inspiration für Molly Bloom in "Ulysses", Anna Livia Plurabella in "Finnegans Wake" und die weiblichen Hauptfiguren in seinem gesamten literarischen Werk."