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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 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.
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' ).
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.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Fröken Lotten Von Kraemer, ...

Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Fröken Lotten Von Kraemer, ...

Lady Wilde

... Anthony Tipper. Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to FrOken Lotten von Kramer, 1857- 1885 Edited by Karen Sasha Anthony Tipper With a Preface by Donald Mead The Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston^Queenston^Lampeter Library of Congress ...
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 ...
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 ...
Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Oscar Wilde

The 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  ...
Social Studies

Social Studies

Jane Francesca Wilde

A collection of essays on various topics of importance to author Lady Wilde (1821-1896), first published in 1893.
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and ...

Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and ...

Joseph Bristow

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland. Boston: Ticknor, 1888. ——— . Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde, 1875–1895: A Critical Edition. Edited by Karen Sasha Anthony Tipper. Lewiston, PA: Edwin Mellen Press, ...
Horse

Horse

Elaine Walker

In her study of Irish legends in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde, declares the horses of the Daoine Sidhe, the most aristocratic of the heroic fairies, to be as splendid as their riders: And the breed of horses they ...
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Alvin Jackson

... Ireland, 1750–1850: Essays in Tribute to Peter Jupp (Belfast, 2007), 283–303. she wrote under the pen name of speranza and was the mother of oscar Wilde. see Karen sasha anthony tipper, A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde, 1821?
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Francesca Wilde

... tribes, carrying with them, as signs of their origin, broken fragments of the primal creed, and broken idioms of the primal tonguethose early pages in the history of the human Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde Contents: Preface Introduction.
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,” ...
Lady of the Cards

Lady of the Cards

Rosita G. Fanto

Lady of the Cards documents the relationship of publisher and artist Rosita Fanto, and Richard Ellmann, famed biographer of W.B.Yeats, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.
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., ...
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 ...

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