Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Oscar Wilde
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Standard Name: Wilde, Oscar
Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose in England was not reversed until the modernists returned to the struggle for unfettered aesthetic expression. A leading proponent of art for art's sake in England, OW
was a follower of Walter Pater
, from whose work he borrows in lavish quantity, and, like Pater, he was much influenced by the French l'art pour l'art poets, notably Charles Baudelaire
and Théophile Gautier
.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press.
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More recently, his brilliant aesthetic essays have drawn serious attention as the basis for many critical propositions . . . which we like to attribute to more ponderous names.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House.
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His notoriety as a casualty of oppressive laws against the practice of homosexuality is also the subject of a good deal of recent critical comment.
The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare
, Byron
, Shaw
, and Wilde
. It was shown on Sunday evenings.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
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Evelyn Sharp
ES
was sustaining an extremely high rate of publication at the turn of the century. Her books for children included The Other Boy, 1902 (a comment on the sexual panic flowing from the Oscar Wilde
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Sybille Bedford
SB
began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde
), fiction (Graham Greene
), travel writing (...
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Dodie Smith
Its title alludes to Oscar Wilde
's A Woman of No Importance.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
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DS
's American publisher, Little, Brown
was shocked at the novel's homosexual content and its likely impact on her readership. They...
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Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Biographer Joy Melville
notes that a bibliography of Swedenborg's work lists Speranza as the translator but, pages later denies her this role. In his biography of Oscar Wilde
, Richard Ellmann
credits her with the...
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Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
While pregnant with her second son this year, she found writing a difficult fit with her family life. She expressed in her letters a suspicion that her heart had cooled down into such a dull...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
published (as M.E. Braddon) her novel The Rose of Life, which fictionalises aspects of the life and trial of her friend Oscar Wilde
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Both Sides of the Curtain covers ER
's relations with the theatre knights Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
and Sir Henry Irving
. According to Woolf (who found it a fascinating book, despite its portraits of...
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin
From Methuen's first-published author, Edna Lyall
, she traces the firm's dealings with other progressive activists, with canonical names in many genres including books for children, and with such controversial figures as Ibsen
, Wilde
, and Lawrence
.
JFLW
discovered that her husband's death had left the family with considerable debts. His estate was primarily divided between the sons, Willie
and Oscar
, and while his widow nominally received about £100 to £150...
