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Joined Across the Water: A History of the Urological Society ...

Joined Across the Water: A History of the Urological Society ...

Sally Wilde

In this history of the Society, Sally Wilde examines the changing political and social context for the development of Urology in Australasia, relationships with the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and with other members of the medical ...
The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power ...

The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power ...

Ana Carden-Coyne

4 Sally Wilde, 'Truth, Trust and Confidence in Surgery, 1890–1910: Patient Autonomy, Communication, and Consent', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83, 2, Summer, 2009, 302–20. 5 Sally Wilde, 'The Elephant in the Doctor-Patient ...
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.
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.
Soil

Soil

Sally M. Walker

Sally M. Walker. LERNER BOOKS • LONDON • NEW YORK • MINNEAPOLIS BY SALLY M WALKER Copyright © 2007 by Sally M Walker All rights reserved. Title Page.
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 ...
Life Under the Bells: A History of the Metropolitan Fire ...

Life Under the Bells: A History of the Metropolitan Fire ...

Sally Wilde

The text traces the evolution of the brigade from its earliest years to the present day, based upon extensive interviews and documentary evidence.
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 ...
Things of Nature and the Nature of Things: John Wilde in the ...

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 Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

Oscar Wilde

Amusing, 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 ...

Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British ...

Dominic Janes

That 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.
The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook

The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook

Sally J. Zepeda

Professional Development: WhatWorks(2nd Edition) Sally J. Zepeda Instructional Leadership for School Improvement Sally J. Zepeda Informal Classroom Observations On theGo: Feedback, Discussion, and Reflection (3rd Edition) Sally J.
Irish Popular Superstitions

Irish Popular Superstitions

William Robert Wilde

Almost 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.

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