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Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and ...
PreviewStudies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century Annette M. Magid ... An additional detail regarding the name “Wilde” is posited to 2 Frederick C. Blodi, “William R. Wilde (1815-1876) in Vienna,” ...
Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives
Preview58 Robert Harborough Sherard,TheRealOscar Wilde (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1916), 110–11, andEllmann, OscarWilde, ... 67 In 1864, Wilde'smother, Jane Francesca Wilde, took out alibel suit against Mary Josephine Travers, apatient of ...
The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan7 Marriage In November 1851 all the Dublin papers carried the following announcement: 'Married on the 12th inst. at St Peter's Church by the Reverend John M. Wilde, A.M., Incumbent of Trinity Church, Northwich, William R. Wilde, Esq., ...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan performed at St James's Theatre, London (February to July). Salomé ... Wilde quickly takes out an action accusing Queensberry of criminal libel. ... Death of Wilde's mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde ('Speranza' ).
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
PreviewOscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and late-Victorian table-talk / Lucy McDiarmid -- Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, photography, and identity / Daniel A. Novak -- Salomé as bombshell, or, How Oscar Wilde became ...
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde, 1875-1895: A ...
Lady WildeThis book presents Lady Wilde's letters to her son, Oscar Wilde, correspondence which began when Oscar left Trinity College, Dublin, to attend Oxford University and ended just before Oscar was charged in 1895 with offenses under Section ...
Lady Wilde's Letters to Constance Wilde, Friends and ...
Karen Sasha Anthony TipperThe current final volume is a collection of correspondence written by Lady Jane Wilde to her daughter-in-law, Constance Wilde, as well as other friends and acquaintances.
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew
Eleanor FitzsimonsThe modest ceremony that joined 'William R. Wilde Esq., F.R.C.S.' and 'Jane Francesca' was conducted by the groom's older brother, Reverend John M. Wilde . For the occasion, Jane had exchanged her mourning clothes for a 'very rich dress ...
The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'SullivanIn a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Irish American families of Victorian times, and places him in the broader social, ...
The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'SullivanIn a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Irish American families of Victorian times, and places him in the broader social, ...
Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde
John SloanThis book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work in film, stage, and the media in the century following his death.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Mr. John Hilson, 1847-1876: A ...
Lady WildeLady Jane Wilde's letters have not been published before except piecemeal in her three biographies and in biograpies of the Wilde family.
Oscar Wilde
Frank HarrisA biography of Oscar Wilde, this book offers a look at Wilde's rise and fall.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian ...
Oscar Wilde90 Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 368-9, 424 Whitechapel 1 8, 1 1 9, 1 8 1 , 203, 287, 375, 429 White's 32, 192,379,430 Whitman, Walt xxxix Wilde, Jane Francesca ('Speranza') 365 Wilde, Oscar 'Art at Willis's Rooms' 435 'Ave Imperatrix' 373 ...
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde:
Joseph Pearcemost impressive combination of all these names, signing herself Francesca Speranza Wilde. The flight of fancy into the Tuscan mists to claim Dante's inheritance may have been wishful thinking, but Lady Wilde's verifiable ancestors are ...
Oscar Wilde in Context
PreviewJames Eli Adams No author in the history of literature in English has been more prominent as a visual icon, both in life and afterwards, than Oscar Wilde. That visibility is both a testament to and a source of Wilde's power, almost from his first ...
The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildePresents a collection of Oscar Wilde's book reviews.
Oscar Wilde
PreviewSince the number of articles, reviews, and books on Wilde that have appeared since 1881 is overwhelming, this volume ... I have used the following abbreviations in the introduction and headnotes: Letters The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed.
Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeA comprehensive collection of Wilde's works including poems, plays, letters, essays, and stories.
Irish peacock & scarlet marquess: the real trial of Oscar Wilde
Merlin HollandWilde's fall from grace was swift; his case lost, prosecution by the Crown soon followed, ending in the imprisonment that destroyed his health - even as his art, as Wilde put it, improved through 'suffering' In this remarkable book we ...
Things of Nature and the Nature of Things: John Wilde in the ...
John Wilde(cat. no. 10). On the back cover: John Wilde in his studio, September 8, 2000. Photograph by Russell Panczenko. Edited by Christine Javid Designed by University Communications Things of Nature and the Nature of Things John Wilde.
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
Oscar WildeAmusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British ...
Dominic JanesThat there is a queeras opposed to merely homosexualhistory before Oscar Wilde will come as news to many in the sexuality studies field. Oscar Wilde Prefigured.
Irish Popular Superstitions
William Robert WildeAlmost 150 years ago, Sir William Wilde, father of the famous writer Oscar Wilde, attempted to capture in a single volume the wit and wisdom, the lore and legend, of the superstitious Irish imagination.
Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
Oscar WildeThe publication of such a pamphlet was calculated to injure both Sir William and Lady Wilde in public esteem, and Miss Travers was not content to let the matter rest there. She drew attention to the pamphlet by letters to the papers, and on one ...
Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940
Greta JonesFor Wilde's European reputation as an otologist, see Sproule, 'Sir William Wilde', p. 581; Lesky, The Vienna Medical School, p. 178. For his influence in Australia, see R.F. Lowe, 'William R. Wilde, Andrew S. Gray and two eye hospitals of very ...
Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity
Michael Patrick Gillespie. . . This book has authority and thoroughness."--Roy Gottfried, Vanderbilt University Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity presents an inclusive approach to Wilde criticism.
The Library of William Andrews Clark, Jr: Wilde and Wildeiana
More editions"Speranza" was the nom deplume of Jane FrancescaWilde,the mother of Oscar Wilde, which she signed to all her ... By || Sir William R. Wilde, M.D.,|| Vice- President Of The Royal Irish Academy ; || [etc.,etc] Illustrated with numerous Wood ...
Oscar Wilde's Enniskillen
PreviewSir William Wilde to the amount of "One Farthing," being the lowest award which could legally be made, so as to carry costs, ... From scraps of letters produced during the trial, as having been addressed from Sir William R. Wilde to the plaintiff, ...
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