Franny Moyle (61 page)

Tomalin, Lewis,
141

Torquay,
10–12
,
61
,
66
,
236–7
,
272
;
see also
Babbacombe Cliff

Travers, Mary Josephine,
18

Travers, Dr Robert,
18

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm,
40
,
114
,
224

Tree, Maud, Lady (Maud Holt),
114

Troubridge, Laura
see
Hope, Laura Tuer, Andrew,
131

Turner, Reginald,
300
,
324

United Ireland
(newspaper),
149

United States of America: Oscar's 1881 lecture tour in,
49–51
,
56
,
58
,
66
; Oscar revisits,
69–70

University Club for Ladies, London,
161
Utopianism,
188

Vanity Fair
(magazine),
31

Victoria, Queen: diamond jubilee (1897),
302–3

Vivian, Ethel (i.e. Wilmore),
41–2

Vivian, Herbert:
Reminiscences of a Short Life
,
178–9

Wagstaff, Sarah,
228

Walker, Mrs (
nee
Maturin; Oscar's cousin),
215–16

Walton, Aglaia,
48

Wandsworth gaol,
277
,
281

Ward, Mary (Mrs Humphry Ward),
36

Watts, George Frederic,
212–13
,
275
,
323

Watts, Theodore,
127

Waugh, Ruth,
268

Weekly Irish Times
,
138

Weldon, Georgina,
130

Westcott, Dr William Wynne,
168–70;
;
The Historic Lecture for Neophytes
,
173

Where's the Cat?
(satirical play),
40

Whistler, James McNeill: house in Tite Street,
2
,
52
; Oscar owns prints,
3
; paints Grosvenor Gallery ceiling,
30
; friendship with Frank Miles,
38
; invites Constance to breakfast,
82
; late for Wildes' wedding,
87
; paintings exhibited,
90
; lectures,
97
; paints dragons on ceiling of Wildes' Tite Street house,
101
; on Oscar as bourgeois,
124
; signs Constance's autograph book,
127
; illustrates Emily J. Pfeiffer,
131
; Constance's pictures sold,
323

Wilde, Constance (
nee
Lloyd;
later
Holland): Aestheticism,
3
,
6–7
,
23–4
,
30–2
,
37
,
52
,
56
,
99–100;
; appearance, dress and style,
5–7
,
21
,
23–4
,
92–9
,
104
,
109
,
128
,
151–2
,
241
; friendship with and dependence on Georgina Mount-Temple,
8
,
10–11
,
185–9
,
192
196
; iU health as child,
10
; visits Torquay,
10–12;
; birth,
14
; upbringing and education,
15–16;
; abused by mother,
19–20;
; and father's death,
19
; interest in spiritualism and mesmerism,
22–3
,
175–6;
; expectations of inheritance from grandfather Lloyd,
25
,
76–7;
; financial independence,
25
; and mother's remarriage,
26–7;
; marriage prospects,
27–8;
; moves into grandfather's Lancaster Gate house,
28–30;
; art interests,
30–5
, 47~8,
57
,
61
; embroidery,
32–3;
; on Otho's exam failures,
42–3;
; declines suitors' proposals of marriage,
43–4;
; romantic interest in Oscar,
44–8
,
68–72;
; and Oscar's absence on American lecture tour,
49–51
,
56
; accepts bohemian lifestyle,
53–4;
; collects blue and white china,
56
; pottery and art classes,
57–8;
; visits Delgaty Castle,
58–61;
; sexual attractiveness and flirtatiousness,
59–61;
; career ambitions,
62
,
108
,
129–30;
; and women's rights,
62–3;
; disagrees with Oscar on nature of art,
71
; engagement to Oscar,
72–7
,
81–3;
; marriage settlement from grandfather Lloyd,
77–8;
; devotion to Oscar,
78
,
80
; pet marmoset,
83–4;
; clumsiness and impracticality,
84
,
133
,
260–1;
; public image and celebrity,
85
,
89–90
,
93
; wedding,
85–8;
; acquires Tite Street house on marriage,
86
; view of married life,
91–2;
; renovation and decor of Tite Street house,
99–101
,
103
; inheritance on grandfather's death,
100
; early married life,
102–4;
; joins London clubs and societies,
102
; Oscar gives puppy to,
103
,
105
; visits exhibitions,
104–5;
; pregnancies and children,
105–7
,
114–16;
; devotion to Cyril,
108
; writings and journalism,
108–9
, 111,
129–30
,
139–42
,
241
; views on women's dress,
109–10;
; acting,
112–15;
; Oscar's declining sexual interest in,
115
,
119
,
123
; and Oscar's attraction to young men,
118
,
120
,
124
,
181–2;
; developing jealousy of Oscar's infidelities,
122
,
181–2;
; and brother Otho's broken marriage,
123
; money problems and debts,
124
; entertaining,
126–9
,
251
,
263
; children's stories,
130–1
,
133–4
, 136–9,
227
; portrait,
130
; assists Oscar with writings,
135–7;
; edits Rational Dress Society gazette,
142–5;
; holiday in Worthing,
143–7;
; political campaigning,
145
,
148–51
,
154–7
,
161
; parenting,
146–7
,
197–8;
; treatment of Vyvyan,
147
,
197
,
225
; carries walking stick,
151–2;
; public speaking,
151
; portrayed by Marie Corelli,
152–3;
; devotion to mother-in-law,
153
; satirized by
Punch
,
158–9;
; illness and recovery (1889),
159–60;
; practises spiritual quietism,
159–60;
; theatre-going,
160
,
233
; embraces Christian morality,
161
; enthusiasm for Theosophy,
166–7
, ‘74; joins Golden Dawn order,
170–5;
; joins Society for Psychical Research,
176
; leaves Golden Dawn,
175–6;
; deteriorating marriage relations,
176–8
,
182
; and portrayal of Cyril by Herbert Vivian,
178–9;
; fads and crazes,
184–5;
; Christian socialism and welfare,
185
,
188–9
,
244
; ar Jd Oscar's absences from home,
187
,
191–2
,
194–6;
; quest for moral purpose,
188
; admires Oscar's work,
191
; social visits without Oscar,
192–3;
; loses possessions in burglary,
193
; replaces stolen items,
195
; depressions,
196
,
217
,
291
; suffers from ‘rheumatism',
196
,
218
; visits aunt Emily in St Leonards,
196–7;
; Oscar dedicates
The House of Pomegranates
to,
199–200;
; holiday with Oscar in Felbrigg, near Cromer,
201
,
204–6
,
211–12;
; stays at Goring-on-Thames cottage,
209–11;
; legacies from aunts,
210
; Oscar's rudeness to,
211
; adopts new social circle,
212
; repays debts,
212
; photography,
213
,
218–19
,
282
,
284
,
306
,
308
,
311
; rents Babbacombe for short term,
213–16;
; seeks larger house in Chelsea,
215–16
,
234
; visit to Italy (1893),
216–19,
221–2;
; Bosie alienates Oscar from,
221–4
,
226–7;
; stays at Goring with Oscar and Bosie,
224
; becomes aware of Oscar's behaviour,
225
; religious retreat at Clewer convent,
228
; attracted to Catholicism,
229
; awareness of Oscar's homosexual practices,
229
; hopes for cure for Oscar's homosexuality,
231
; reorganizes home and relations with Oscar,
232–5;
; translates Dutch review of Oscar's
Salome
,
233
; agrees to Oscar meeting Bosie in Paris,
235–6;
; and sons' early education,
236
,
238
; affair with Arthur Humphreys,
241–3
,
250
; compiles
Oscariana
,
241
,
244
,
248
; acquires house in Worthing,
243–4;
; despair at attacks on Oscar,
250
; ill health and fall down stairs,
252–3
,
259
; and Oscar's decision to sue Queensberry,
255–8;
; absent from Oscar's court case against Queensberry,
259
; supports Oscar in libel case,
262
; accompanies Oscar to
The Importance of Being Earnest
,
263–5;
; and Oscar's arrest,
266
; public support for after Oscar's arrest,
267–9;
; protects sons during Oscar's conviction,
269–70;
; pursued by Oscar's creditors,
271
; changes name to Holland,
273
,
284
; homelessness and nomadic life,
274
; in Switzerland following Oscar's prison sentence,
275–8;
; visits Oscar on bail,
275
; seeks divorce,
276–8;
; considers abandoning divorce,
278–80;
; love and devotion for Oscar after conviction,
278
,
282
; visits Oscar in gaol,
280
,
282
,
288–9
,
298
; deteriorating health and immobility,
283–4
, 292; moves to Nervi (Italy),
283–4;
; operation to treat mobility problems,
285–6;
; reconsiders divorce,
286–7
,
295
; and Oscar's claims on annuity,
287
,
289
,
293–8;
; courage in facing world,
288–9;
; will leaving whole estate to Adrian Hope,
289
; settles in Hotel Nervi,
290
; moves to Heidelberg,
291–3;
; anxiety over custody of sons,
294
,
299
; legal separation from Oscar,
299–300
; settles Oscar's immediate expenses on release from prison,
300
; exchange of letters with Oscar on release from prison,
301
; stays with Ranee Brooke in Nervi,
302
; handwriting analysed,
303–4;
; growing appreciation of Vyvyan,
305
; failure to meet Oscar in Dieppe,
306–7;
; growing difficulty with writing,
306
; holiday with sons in Black Forest,
308
; occupies Villa Elvira, Bogliasco,
308–9
,
311
; and Oscar's proposed visit to meet in Italy,
309
; fury at Oscar's staying with Bosie in Naples,
310
; learns macrame,
311
; rejects Oscar,
311
; uses typewriter,
311
; continuing interest in Oscar,
313
; sends money to Oscar,
313–14;
; death and burial,
316–20;
; gravestone inscription,
318
;
321
,
328
; Oscar visits grave,
321–2;
; pictures sold,
323
; ‘Children's Dress in this Century' (article),
140–2;
; ‘The Little Swallow' (story),
138
,
227
;
There Once Was
(children's book),
133–4
,
137
; ‘Was It a Dream?' (story),
130–3
,
137–8

Wilde, Cyril (Oscar–Constance's son)
see
Holland, Cyril

Wilde, Dorothy (Willie-Lily's daughter),
326

Wilde, Emily (Sir William's illegitimate daughter),
18

Wilde, Isola (Oscar's sister): death in childhood,
115

Wilde, Jane Francesca (
nee
Elgee; Oscar's mother; ‘Speranza'): in Dublin,
13
,
15
; marriage,
17
; and Mary Travers scandal,
18–19;
; financial difficulties,
45
,
55
,
63–4
,
157
,
249
; in London,
45–6
,
55
; social life and entertaining,
46
,
67–8;
; and Oscar's courtship of Constance,
47
,
67
; burns Oscar's letter to Willie,
64
; and Oscar's marriage prospects,
65
; and Constance's wedding,
85
,
87
; attends Constance's party,
128
; encourages Constance's literary ambitions,
129
,
135
; Constance's devotion to,
153
; friendship with Anna Kingsford,
166
; moves to Oakley Street,
198
; Constance helps financially,
212
; Constance seeks house for,
216
; recalls Constance from Worthing during illness,
249
; Constance announces change of name,
273
; death,
288
; ‘The Bondage of Women',
63