Alison Kendall
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Alison Kendall is Encyclopædia Britannica’s Media Manager. Alison has worked at Britannica in media acquisitions for 25 years. Prior to joining Britannica, she worked as a photo editor for the Associated Press. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science and a Master’s in Journalism, both from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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On June 16, 1904, Irish writer James Joyce had his first date with Nora Barnacle, a woman from western Ireland who worked as a chambermaid in Finn’s Hotel in Dublin. This romantic encounter led to a lifetime together, in which the couple lived a peripatetic life on the European continent and had…
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