Purefoy, Wilhelmina (Mina). A friend of Molly Bloom. She is in her third day of labor with her ninth child during much of Ulysses; the baby is born near the end of Oxen of the Sun. Although she appears only in a fantasy sequence in Circe, Leopold Bloom often thinks sympathetically of her difficult labor. In fact, his visit to the maternity hospital in Oxen of the Sun is prompted by a desire to seek news of her condition. She is mentioned in Lestrygonians, Wandering Rocks, Sirens, Oxen of the Sun, Ithaca, and Penelope.