Encryption of Finnegans Wake Resolved

The exemplary life and devotions of the reform journalist W. T. Stead (1949-1912) provided James Joyce with a model, a theme, and a purpose. Joyce integrated Steadfacts with his own personal emerging autobiography and interpretation of the ongoing Irish national, international, and even cosmic events.

Grace Eckley in the 1980s retired from teaching to devote full time to research writing. After more than twenty years in beloved Colorado, she returned to family in Des Moines, Iowa, and now profits from their many contributions to research efforts.

List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chapter One: The Stead Source and the Critical Dilemma Chapter Two: The Predication of the Portrait's "Good Man Stead" Chapter Three: The Strategy of the Encrypted Name Chapter Four: The Thunder of Stead's Scandalous Maiden Tribute Chapter Five: The Park Maid and the Sinister Sir Chapter Six: Who Was the Hen and Whose the Letters Chapter Seven: Light and Science in the "Dark Night of the Soul" Chapter Eight: Maamtrasna Retrial Defends the Joyce Family Name Chapter Nine: The Brunonian "Hiresiarch" and the Russian general (Sic) Chapter Ten: Timing and Terrain of the Snake and the Whale Chapter Eleven: The Encrypted Hero of Finnegans Wake References