Constance Wilde

She had asked for him before her death but he was not permitted to leave prison to visit her. On 9 February Constance brought the bad news to Reading Gaol. Oscar expressed great remorse for...

ML met the itinerant poet-pugilistArthur Cravan in New York in April 1917 at the Society of Independent Artists Exhibition. This was the year after his boxing-ring career had peaked. Born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd

On 29 May 1884, Oscar married Constance Lloyd , who became one of his mother's closest companions.

Moving to London brought SG to the centre of the campaign for women's rights; there she met leading activists like Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Eva McClaren , Lady Elizabeth Cust , and Constance Wilde (wife...

Oscar Wilde , virtually homeless in the limbo following his first trial, went to stay with AL and her husband ; his wife visited him at their house.

AL 's first meeting with Oscar Wilde is variously dated 1892 or 1893. They became very close, exchanging compliments, paradoxes, and flattery. She was a tower of strength to him at the time...

As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France. As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...

The Sketch reported that the opening was attended by Fletcher herself, who appeared on stage after the curtain fell to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause of the audience, and by other luminaries including Oscar and Constance Wilde

After time in two other institutions, OW served the bulk of his sentence in Reading Gaol in Berkshire. During this time he was declared bankrupt, and first his mother , then his wife Constance

CS was involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and the Rational Dress Society , which she ran in conjunction with Constance Wilde .

Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated...

Many of JFLW 's letters (mostly to Oscar ) are held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. Other letter collections are held at the University of Reading (which has typed...

The characterisation of the Constance Wilde figure and her relationship with Lester suggests a more thorough feminist critique of consumerism and women's place within aestheticism. Although the book represents Lester as loving his doting wife...

By the time JFLW moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance . Proper household management became difficult...