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Jun 23, 2011 · Constance. : Franny Moyle. John Murray Press, Jun 23, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 384 pages. In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's ...
Oct 14, 2022 · In 1886, just two years after her marriage to Oscar, Constance Wilde started her own autograph book. On the pages of this little volume, she gathered the ‘crème de la crème’ of the fin-de-siècle world with ‘specimens of writing’ from some of the most famous authors, artists, statesmen, actors and actresses as well as musicians, social activists and spiritualists of the age.
Jun 3, 2021 · Oscar Wilde's wife died on April 7, 1898, at the age of 40. As reported by The Lancet, Constance Mary Wilde was diagnosed with a number of unusual ailments in the decade preceding her death. However, as doctors believed the maladies were treatable, her death was "unexpected." The specific cause of Constance's illness remained a mystery for more ...
Jul 12, 2019 · On May 29, 1884, the Irish author Oscar Wilde married the author and political activist Constance Lloyd. The couple went on to have two children, Cyril and Vyvyan. We look back on the mysterious ...
Feb 18, 2016 · 2. Wilde’s half-sisters, Emily and Mary Wilde died tragically, aged 24 and 22, in a macabre accident that occurred at a Halloween ball on October 31st, 1871. As Emily took a last turn around the dance floor with their host, her wide crinoline dress brushed against embers in the fireplace and caught alight.
September 1894. Constance Wilde too was a keen correspondent, and eleven of her letters from Worthing survive.7 One is to her brother Otho;8 one to Arthur Humphreys,9 who was shortly to publish Oscariana , a collection of Wilde's epigrams;10 and nine to Georgina Mount Temple.11 A few letters to Lady Mount Temple either side of Constance's stay in
Jan 5, 2015 · By Megan Gannon. Constance Wilde — the wife of 19th century Irish writer Oscar Wilde — suffered from a mysterious illness during the last decade of her life. A new analysis of her unpublished ...
