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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. B. C. Jones | Robert Ross
, journalist, art historian, and Roman Catholic convert, who is remembered principally as a friend of Oscar Wilde
, was her uncle. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Robert Baldwin Ross |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Douglas | The eldest of GD
's brothers, John Sholto Douglas, the heir, became Marquess of Queensberry
at their father's early death. He later became notorious as the father of Lord Alfred Douglas
and the enemy of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Sir William Wilde
, husband of Jane Francesca
and father of Oscar
, was a connection by marriage as well as a family friend. “O’Conor-Eccles”. Library Ireland. |
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, pp. 8 - 13. 8 |