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Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar in 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy and Lunita Laredo. Molly and Leopold were married in 1888. She is the mother of Milly Bloom, who, at the age of 15, has left home to study photography. She is also the mother of Rudy Bloom, who died at the age of 11 days. In Dublin, Molly is an opera singer of some renown.

The final, unpunctuated chapter of ''Ulysses'', often called " Molly Bloom's Soliloquy ", is a long Stream Of Consciousness passage comprising her thoughts as she lies in bed next to Bloom.

The writer J.M. Coetzee 's novel, ''Elizabeth Costello'', portrays the fictional writer Costello as the author of a fictional novel, ''The House on Eccles Street'', which is written from the fictional Molly Bloom's point of view.


REFERENCES


  • Blamires, Harry (1988). ''The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (Revised Edition Keyed to the Corrected Text)''. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00704-6.


  • Joyce, James (1992). ''Ulysses: The 1934 Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961''. New York: The Modern Library.

  • ISBN 0-679-60011-6.