The Bohemian Girl gitanilla" itself has been filmed three times, but never in English. "The Bohemian Girl" is mentioned in the short stories "Clay" and "Eveline" by James Joyce which are both parts of "Dubliners". In "Clay", the character Maria sings some lines from "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls". The aria is quoted again in Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake". Booth Tarkington mentions the opera, though not by name, in "The Two Vanrevels", and quotes a line of the aria "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls". The opera is mentioned, and the aria is referred to several times, in the novel
James Joyce (biography) and digested the whole of it—except perhaps my friend Richard Ellmann." Ellmann quotes extensively from "Finnegans Wake" as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce. James Joyce (biography) James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author's complex works. Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he claimed it to be "the greatest literary biography of the century." Edna O'Brien, the Irish novelist, remarked that "H. G. Wells said