Sir William Robert Wills Wilde

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.

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 .

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...

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.

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...

The family's finances were considerably tightened at this time owing to Sir William 's reduced practice. In 1872 he took out a second mortgage on the Dublin house.

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

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 .

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...

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.

Jane Francesca Wilde , or Speranza, and her husband made their first trip to Scandinavia.

Jane Francesca Wilde (Speranza) achieved her aristocratic ambitions when her husband was knighted and she became 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.

Sir William Wilde , husband of Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde (Speranza), for twenty-five years, died. His death left her in financial straits.

Jane Francesca Elgee contributed to the Nation a glowing review of the Beauties of Boyne and Blackwater by William Robert Wilde , her future husband.