Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Scylla and Charybdis/207
Annotations
editfemme de trente ans (French) thirty-year-old woman.[1] Anne Hathaway was thirty in 1585 or 1586. Shakespeare is thought to have left Stratford-upon-Avon for London in 1585.[2]
La Femme de trente ans (A Woman of Thirty) is also the title of a novel by Honoré de Balzac.[3]