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Talisman:

Talisman:

Fran Wilde

This is the 6th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Fran Wilde.
Getting Even With Fran

Getting Even With Fran

Chris Stinson

Fran, I'm not happy for me.' She took a deep breath, let it out, let her gaze drop. She couldn't look at Fran when she admitted out loud, 'I don't want another baby.' 'Jesus,' Fran whispered. Anne winced, and Fran immediately reached out to ...
Fran & Leni

Fran & Leni

Sadie Hasler

Fran Alright. Leni Alright. You've come a long way. Bristol, right? Fran Bath. Leni I know. Wrote it enough. Fran It's really good, Len. Your book. It's honest. Leni You always made me feel like I was illiterate. Fran I know. That was wrong. You're ...
Fran Ellen's House

Fran Ellen's House

Marilyn Sachs

When Fran and her brother and sisters reunite with their mother after living with foster families for two years, Fran has a difficult time adjusting to her new life.
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?: Dubbing Stereotypes in ...

Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?: Dubbing Stereotypes in ...

Chiara Francesca Ferrari

On the air in the United States on CBS from 1993 to 1999, The Nanny tells the story of Fran Fine (Fran Drescher), a young Jewish woman from Flushing, Queens. After being fired by her ex-boyfriend from her job at a bridal shop, Fran arrives at ...
Paulina & Fran

Paulina & Fran

Rachel B. Glaser

Paulina dragged Fran's threadbare underwear down her legs. Fran had this bedroom feeling to her, a feeling Paulina had often noticed. Everywhere Fran went, she inhabited like her bedroom. Her joy, her moping—none of it was hidden.
Finding Fran

Finding Fran

Anita J. Jamison

When Fran walks through the door, Barbie is eager to find out how her first day on the new job went. "Ok Fran, I'm all ears. Tell me about how your first day went." "You don't want to know," says Fran. "What do you mean I don't want to know.
Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and ...

Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and ...

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Studies 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

Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives

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58 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

The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family

Emer O'Sullivan

7 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

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Oscar Wilde

Lady 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

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend

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Oscar 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 Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde, 1875-1895: A ...

Lady Wilde

This 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 ...

Lady Wilde's Letters to Constance Wilde, Friends and ...

Karen Sasha Anthony Tipper

The 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.
Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers

Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers

Susan Tupper

For several years, Fran attempted to breed a young golden eagle, Chrys, to bear baby eagles. Fran was very patient, but she never succeeded in breeding Chrys. Eventually, she gave Chrys to Cornell University. A few years later a biologist at ...
Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew

Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew

Eleanor Fitzsimons

The 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

The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family

Emer O'Sullivan

In 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

The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family

Emer O'Sullivan

In 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

Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde

John Sloan

This 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 Jane Wilde's Letters to Mr. John Hilson, 1847-1876: A ...

Lady Wilde

Lady Jane Wilde's letters have not been published before except piecemeal in her three biographies and in biograpies of the Wilde family.
Keeping Bad Company: (Fran Varady 2)

Keeping Bad Company: (Fran Varady 2)

Ann Granger

But this is only the beginning of Fran's investigation - days later, Alkie Albie is found dead .
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris

A 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 ...

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian ...

Oscar Wilde

90 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:

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde:

Joseph Pearce

most 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 ...
The Fran with Four Brains

The Fran with Four Brains

Jim Benton

With so much on her plate, like creating monsters and dealing with overgrown babies, mad scientist Fran decides that the only way to get all her tasks done is to create Franbots.
Oscar Wilde in Context

Oscar Wilde in Context

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James 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

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Presents a collection of Oscar Wilde's book reviews.
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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Since 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

Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

A comprehensive collection of Wilde's works including poems, plays, letters, essays, and stories.
Irish peacock & scarlet marquess: the real trial of Oscar Wilde

Irish peacock & scarlet marquess: the real trial of Oscar Wilde

Merlin Holland

Wilde'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 ...

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