Within a few months of meeting him she was corresponding with John Hilson
, a Scottish tweed manufacturer who contributed frequently on literature and politics to local and national periodicals.
Tipper, Karen Sasha Anthony, editor. “Introduction”. Lady Jane Wilde’s Letters to Mr John Hilson, 1847-1876: a critical edition, Edwin Mellen, 2010, pp. 1-15.
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Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson
in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett
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At Edinburgh she visited a ragged school; at Jedburgh she met John Hilson
, who remained her friend and correspondent for twenty-five years. This tour was a high point of enjoyment in her life.
Grant, Roger. “Speranzas Visit To Scotland, Summer 1847”. The Wildean—A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, edited by Don Mead, Jan. 2015.