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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Wilde
(Speranza) achieved her aristocratic ambitions when her husband
was knighted and she became Lady Wilde. Wyndham, Horace. Speranza. T. V. Boardman, 1951. 65 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Sir William Wilde
, husband of Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
(Speranza), for twenty-five years, died. His death left her in financial straits. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 138, 141 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | During the summer of 1855, JFLW
suffered considerable strain when William Wilde
fell seriously ill. He recovered, but had several relapses in the years before his death. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 75, 116 |
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. “OConor-EcclesLibrary Ireland. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Elgee
, the Irish nationalist writer Speranza, married William Robert Wilde
, a physician specializing in the eye and ear, at St Peter's Church in Dublin. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 61 Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 679 |
Health | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
was blind for some years. She lost her sight at about eleven but regained it after an operation performed by Sir William R. Wilde
(father to Oscar
) when she was eighteen. O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968. 62 Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols. |
Other Life Event | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | The libel charges brought by Mary Travers
, aggrieved patient of Sir William Wilde
, against JFLW
(Speranza), came to trial at Four Courts in Dublin. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 109 |
Other Life Event | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | JFLW
and her husband
were both on the crest of a wave of success when one of his patients, Mary Travers
, accused him of rape. Reportedly, after her treatment ended in autumn 1854, she... |
Author summary | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, remains best known for her fierce Irish Nationalist poems published in the Nation under the pseudonym Speranza. She became known too for her translations of both poetry and fiction... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Elgee
contributed to the Nation a glowing review of the Beauties of Boyne and Blackwater by William Robert Wilde
, her future husband. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 54 |
Publishing | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Sir William Wilde
's illustrated Memoir of Gabriel Beranger
and his Labours in the Cause of Irish Art and Antiquities, from 1760 to 1780, appeared posthumously with a concluding part written by JFLW
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2766 (1880): 564 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. |
Reception | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 143 |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | She finished her husband's biography, of a noted archaeologist, after being widowed in 1876 and moving to London. Her preface pays tribute to the late Sir William
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 168 |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | To this she appended a chapter on The Ancient Races of Ireland by her late husband
. The preface was signed Francesca Speranza Wilde. Some of these legends had appeared previously in her article The... |
Travel | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Wilde
, or Speranza, and her husband
made their first trip to Scandinavia. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999. 83 |
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