Samuel Beckett became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the French Croix de Guerre and Médaille de la Reconnaissance for his bravery as part of the French Resistance during the Second World War. One of the characters in his early novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women is thought to be based on Lucia.

Alexander Calder became one of the twentieth century’s great sculptors and the originator of the mobile. His work can be seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, amongst other places.

Zelda Fitzgerald was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and from 1930 spent most of her remaining years in mental institutions initially in France (including the same sanatorium supervised by the same doctor as Lucia), then in the United States. She died in a fire while at Highland Hospital, Asheville.

Stella Steyn left Paris to study at the Bauhaus in Germany. With the rise of fascism, she left Germany and spent the rest of her life living quietly in London. She painted, sporadically, for the rest of her life and her paintings are now in many British and Irish collections, including that at No. 10 Downing Street.

Alex Ponisovksy narrowly missed being sued by the Joyce family for breaking his engagement contract to Lucia. He later helped extricate Peggy Guggenheim’s art collection from Paris in 1940 but was picked up by the Nazis in Monte Carlo in 1942 and was never seen again.

Paul Leon was shot by the Nazis in 1942, having rescued Joyce’s papers and belongings after the Joyce family fled their Paris apartment in 1939.

Emile Fernandez married, but after the collapse of his marriage he fathered a child with a fifteen-year-old from the Ivory Coast. His musical career never reached the heights of his cousin, Darius Milhaud.

Margaret Morris’s pioneering dance movement is still practised across the world today.

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