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Anthologization | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Some of her essays and stories were also collected this year in volume 14 of The Writings of Oscar Wilde. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 298 |
Characters | Patricia Highsmith | In Ripley Under Water, 1991, on the other hand, Tom kills no-one directly, since a grotesque fatal accident removes the objects of his ire. But he and the reader are given recurring reminders of... |
Cultural formation | Kate Marsden | Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM
was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was an Englishwoman (and asserted that identity in the title of her autobiography) whose mother laid claim to Welsh and to distant Italian forebears. She described her family as urban middle-class, with artistic, musical... |
Cultural formation | Anne Carson | As a teenager, AC
fancied herself a reborn Oscar Wilde. Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29 -53. 30 |
Cultural formation | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
identified strongly as a working woman across established class boundaries. She wrote towards the end of her life to Oscar Wilde
, suggesting that he should alter the name of the monthly magazine he... |
death | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
, commonly known under her pen-name Speranza, died of complications from bronchitis while her son Oscar
was serving his prison sentence. Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101 - 16. 113 |
Dedications | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The first edition's dedication to her sons Willie
and Oscar
says: I taught them, no doubt, / That country's a thing one should die for at need. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 4-5 |
Education | Diana Athill | DA
was taught at home by governesses (seven successively before she was sent to school), who followed a correspondence course designed for home schooling which was known as Parents Educational National Union
. A French... |
Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | She later called her boarding school (where she was sent by her parents because of the heavy wartime bombing in their home area) inadequate, Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Anne Carson | When she was in highschool AC
's brother, four years older, liked her to do his homework for him. Carson, Anne. Nox. New Directions, 2010. 5.1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Templeton | She said years later: In truth, I would have married any Englishman. The marriage turned out badly. One of their rows was provoked by his discovering her in possession of a book by Oscar Wilde |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Wilde
(Speranza) gave birth to her elder son, named Willie
; he died in 1899 while his brother Oscar
was in prison. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 16 Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101 - 16. 113 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Oscar Wilde
, son of JFLW
, stayed with her in Chelsea after being released on bail following his arrest in April. Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101 - 16. 112 |