Brenda, Lady MaddoxFRSL (née Murphy; February 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019)[1] was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death.[2] She is best known for her biographies, including of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book, The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children.
Her best-known biography, that of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, was made into a 2000 movie, Nora, starring Susan Lynch in the title role and Ewan McGregor as Joyce.[3]
Her biography of the scientist James Watson was published in 2017.[6]
Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communications (London: Andre Deutsch, 1972)[9]
The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975)[10]
Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time (London: Granada, 1977)[11]
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also published as Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988)[12]
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage,[13] UK edition: The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Brenda met John Maddox, then a science correspondent for The Guardian, while visiting Europe in 1958. They married in 1960, and settled in London, where she raised two stepchildren and had three more children of her own.[2] She died on June 16, 2019, aged 87.[1][22][2]
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^ abcAnon (2017). "Maddox, Brenda Power, (Lady Maddox)". Who's Who & Who Was Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45430. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ abcdeRocco, Fiammetta (June 28, 2019). "Brenda Maddox obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
^ abGenzlinger, Neil (June 27, 2019). "Brenda Maddox, Biographer Who Revealed Joyce's Muse, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
^NPR: Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA – an audio interview
^Maddox, Brenda, James Watson, London: Bloomsbury, 2017; New York: Harper, 2018.
^"Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
^"Suffrage Science Life Sciences 2011 by MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences". Issuu.com. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
^Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communications London: The Trinity Press, 1972; ISBN 0-233-96004-X
^The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children London: Andre Deutsch, 1975; OCLC 723673316
^Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time New York: M. Evans & Co., 1977; ISBN 0-87131-243-3
^Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce also published as Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); ISBN 9780395365106, OCLC 901987872
^D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); ISBN 9781856192439, OCLC 185671236
^Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats (New York: HarperCollins, 1999); ISBN 0-06-017494-3
^"The woman who cracked the BBC's glass ceiling", British Journalism Review. 13: 2 (2003): 69–72.
^Maggie: The First Lady (London: Coronet, 2004); ISBN 9780340825464, OCLC 1065214664
^George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (London: HarperPress, 2009); also published in the USA as George Eliot in Love (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
^Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life Archived June 20, 2017, at the Wayback Machine (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); ISBN 9781408879580
^Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, also published as Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (London: John Murray, 2006) Da Capo Press, 2007
^"Brenda Maddox". The Daily Telegraph. June 22, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.