Welsh Women's Classics: Lucy's Nose

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Ail-ddychymyg cymhellol o ffuglen fywgraffyddol Neo-Fictoraidd 'Lucy R.' Freud sy'n cyfuno seicdreiddiad, ffuglen hanesyddol, a beirniadaeth ffeministaidd, gan rhychwantu tair cyfnod yn Fienna: y 1890au, 1946, a'r 1980au.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A compelling reimagining of Freud's patient 'Lucy R.' Neo-Victorian bio-fiction that blends psychoanalysis, historical fiction, and feminist critique, spanning three eras in Vienna: 1890s, 1946, and the 1980s.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

CECILY MACKWORTH (1911–2006) was a Welsh-born writer and journalist whose cosmopolitan life shaped a prolific literary career. She began writing for her aunt Lady Rhondda’s feminist journal Time and Tide, and lived in Hungary and Germany during the rise of National Socialism. After moving to Brussels she relocated to Paris, where she became a war correspondent and writer. Mackworth authored political journalism, poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, travel narratives and French literary criticism. Her publications include Spring’s Green Shadow and a biography of the Swiss turn-of-the-century cross-dresser and explorer Isabelle Eberhardt. Lucy’s Nose (1992) was among her final works.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Lucy’s Nose is a richly layered narrative that blends historical fiction, life writing, psychoanalysis and socio-political history to explore the intersections of memory, the imagination, and identity. At its heart is a detective-like quest to uncover the story of Freud’s elusive patient ‘Lucy R.’, a 30-year-old Scottish governess in Vienna who sought Freud’s help in the early 1890s for olfactory hallucinations. As the contemporary author-narrator visits Vienna in the 1980s to search for traces of the woman who inspired Freud’s case study, she reflects on Lucy’s resistance to Freud’s sexual theories and begins imaginatively to reconstruct her voice and life. Set against the symbolic backdrop of a historic Viennese train station, the text becomes both a meditation on time and a neo-Victorian experiment in autofiction, merging personal memory with cultural history and blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and self- creation. • Explores memory, identity, and resistance to Freudian theory. • Written by trailblazing Welsh author of Spring’s Green Shadow and war correspondent Cecily Mackworth. • For academic and general readers in women’s studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and modern and neo-Victorian fiction.