Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
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death | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | She had asked for him before her death but he was not permitted to leave prison to visit her. On 9 February Constance
brought the bad news to Reading Gaol. Oscar expressed great remorse for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mina Loy | ML
met the itinerant poet-pugilist Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 238 Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 238 Nicholl, Charles. “The wind comes up out of nowhere”. London Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2006, pp. 8-13. 8 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | On 29 May 1884, Oscar married Constance Lloyd
, who became one of his mother's closest companions. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 198, 203 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Grand | Moving to London brought SG
to the centre of the campaign for women's rights; there she met leading activists like Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Eva McClaren
, Lady Elizabeth Cust
, and Constance Wilde
(wife... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Oscar Wilde
, virtually homeless in the limbo following his first trial, went to stay with AL
and her husband
; his wife
visited him at their house. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Viking, 1987. 440-1 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | AL
's first meeting with Oscar Wilde
is variously dated 1892 or 1893. They became very close, exchanging compliments, paradoxes, and flattery. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Viking, 1987. 392 Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 369-70 |
Performance of text | Julia Constance Fletcher | The Sketch reported that the opening was attended by Fletcher herself, who appeared on stage after the curtain fell to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause of the audience, and by other luminaries including Oscar
and Constance Wilde |
politics | Charlotte Stopes | CS
was involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and the Rational Dress Society
, which she ran in conjunction with Constance Wilde
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
politics | Oscar Wilde | After time in two other institutions, OW
served the bulk of his sentence in Reading Gaol in Berkshire. During this time he was declared bankrupt, and first his mother
, then his wife Constance |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Many of JFLW
's letters (mostly to Oscar
) are held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
in Los Angeles. Other letter collections are held at the University of Reading
(which has typed... |
Textual Production | Oscar Wilde | Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The characterisation of the Constance Wilde
figure and her relationship with Lester suggests a more thorough feminist critique of consumerism and women's place within aestheticism. Although the book represents Lester as loving his doting wife... |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | By the time JFLW
moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance
. Proper household management became difficult... |
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