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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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, 9 Mar. 2006, pp. 8-13. 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Mansfield | These relationships coincided with KM
's reading of Oscar Wilde
. Maata Mahupuku, a Maori, had been at Miss Swainson's school with her, and they had later been together in London. Their friendship became passionate... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | Florence's eldest brother, Lord John
, later became the notorious ninth Marquess of Queensberry, father of Lord Alfred Douglas
. It was he who destroyed Oscar Wilde
by bringing the court case against him. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | While she never seriously entertained the proposals of most of her suitors, she seems to have considered at least one as a possible candidate for husband: Lord Alfred Douglas
, who is notorious as the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | This relationship is the focus of Diane Souhami's Wild Girls (2004). Barney assiduously promoted her partner's work for forty years, ultimately finding it an archival home and ensuring the publication of a well-illustrated account of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca Wilde
(Speranza) gave birth to her elder son, named Willie
; he died in 1899 while his brother Oscar
was in prison. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 16 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Oscar Wilde
, son of JFLW
, stayed with her in Chelsea after being released on bail following his arrest in April. Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16. 112 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Templeton | She said years later: In truth, I would have married any Englishman. The marriage turned out badly. One of their rows was provoked by his discovering her in possession of a book by Oscar Wilde |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
and Wilde
talked for two hours and by her own admission she fell a little in love. qtd. in Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 43 |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
Friends, Associates | Julia Constance Fletcher | JCF met Oscar Wilde
, then an Oxford undergraduate on vacation, in Rome. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Viking, 1987. 74-5 |
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