The Fall of the House of Wilde (71 page)

14.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 360.

37: Letting Rip

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 360.

2.
Moyle,
Constance
, p. 242.

3.
Ibid., p. 243.

4.
Ibid., p. 245.

5.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 362, 363, 370.

6.
Quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 262.

7.
Ibid., p. 262.

8.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 330.

9.
Quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 261.

10.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 334.

11.
Ibid., p. 330.

12.
Ibid., pp. 351, 350.

13.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 106, 107.

14.
Moyle,
Constance
, pp. 250–2.

15.
De Profundis
in
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 885, 886, 887.

38: ‘It is said that Passion makes one think in a circle'

1.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 166–7.

2.
Ibid., pp. 165–6.

3.
Ibid., p. 168.

4.
Moyle,
Constance
, pp. 250–2.

5.
Gide, quoted in Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 108.

6.
Gide, ‘Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam', in Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, pp. 290–7.

7.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 405.

8.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 107.

9.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 383.

10.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 170, 172.

11.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 384.

12.
Douglas's letter, quoted in Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 111.

13.
Quoted in Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 93.

14.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 117.

15.
Ibid., p. 119.

16.
Quoted in Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 95.

17.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 396.

18.
Quoted in Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, pp. 110, 116.

19.
Ibid., p. 116.

20.
Ibid., pp. 116–17.

21.
Ibid., pp. 119–21.

22.
Ibid., pp. 121–3.

23.
Ibid., pp. 125–7.

24.
Ibid., p. 128.

25.
Ibid., pp. 133–4.

26.
Ibid., pp. 144–7.

27.
Ibid., pp. 148–9.

28.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 386.

29.
Quoted in Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, pp. 151–2.

30.
Ibid., p. 152.

31.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 386.

39: Facing Fate

1.
Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 157; Harris, quoted in Hyde, p. 164.

2.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 451.

3.
Ibid., p. 389.

4.
Ibid., p. 392.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Letter of Lord Alfred Douglas, quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 433.

7.
Ibid., pp. 393–4.

8.
Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, pp. 171–3.

9.
Ibid., p. 181.

10.
Ibid., p. 201.

11.
Quoted in Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 222.

12.
William Butler Yeats,
Autobiographies
, London, 1956, p. 289.

13.
Quoted in Moyle,
Constance
, p. 273.

14.
Ibid., p. 272.

15.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 168.

16.
Ibid., pp. 176, 166, 167.

17.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 398.

18.
Yeats,
Autobiographies,
p. 289.

19.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 397–8.

20.
Montgomery Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 224.

21.
Ibid., p. 256.

22.
Ibid., p. 272.

23.
Ibid., p. 273.

24.
Interview with
Gil Blas
, Paris, 22 November 1897, quoted in Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 354.

40: Impotent Silence

1.
‘Soul of Man under Socialism', also quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 454.

2.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 937.

3.
Sherard,
The Real Oscar Wilde
, p. 173.

4.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 902.

5.
Douglas, ‘Oscar Wilde', William Andrews Clark Library.

6.
Douglas's letter to
Mercure de France
quoted in Sherard,
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship
, p. 214.

7.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,
p. 938.

8.
Douglas's letter to
Mercure de France
quoted in Sherard,
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship
, p. 214.

9.
Constance to Emily Thursfield, 25 June 1895, William Andrews Clark Library.

10.
Quoted in Moyle,
Constance
, p. 287.

11.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 262.

12.
Ibid., p. 291.

41: The ‘Disgraced' Name

1.
‘Disgraced name',
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 905; quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 263.

2.
William Andrews Clark Library.

3.
Letter from Sebastian Bowden to More Adey, William Andrews Clark Library.

4.
Letter to Hilson.

5.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 263.

6.
Letter from Lily Wilde to More Adey, William Andrews Clark Library.

7.
Pall Mall Gazette
, 6 February 1896;
Westminster Gazette
, 5 February 1896;
Athenaeum
, 8 February 1896;
Daily Telegraph
, 5 February 1896;
The Times
, 7 February 1896;
Freeman's Journal
, 6 February 1896.

8.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 577.

9.
Letter from Willie Wilde to More Adey, William Andrews Clark Library.

10.
Letter from Lily Wilde to More Adey, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

11.
Letter from Constance Wilde to Lily Wilde, William Andrews Clark Library.

12.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 265.

13.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 911, 936–7, 905.

14.
Ibid., p. 912.

15.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 399.

16.
Ibid., pp. 400–1.

17.
Douglas, quoted in Ellman,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 470–1, 480.

18.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 410.

42: Author of a Legend

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 419, 514.

2.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 878–9, 914.

3.
Ibid., pp. 923–5, 926.

4.
Ibid., pp. 912–13.

5.
Ibid., p. 913.

6.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, pp. 397–8.

43: ‘We all come out of prison as sensitive as children'

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 534.

2.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 342.

3.
Letter from Reginald Turner to C. S. Millard, 29 October 1910, William Andrews Clark Library.

4.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 576–9.

5.
Ibid., p. 601.

6.
Ibid., p. 631.

7.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 853, 869.

8.
Ibid., p. 852.

9.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 654, 708.

10.
Ibid., p. 639.

11.
Ibid., pp. 628–9, 582.

12.
Ibid., p. 637.

13.
Ibid., pp. 644–5.

14.
Ibid., p. 685.

44: ‘I have fiddled too often on the string of Doom'

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 695.

2.
Quoted in Moyle,
Constance
, pp. 309–10.

3.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 685.

4.
‘Social recognition', quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 523.

5.
Ibid., p. 521.

6.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 695.

7.
Ibid., p. 700.

8.
Ibid., pp. 709–10.

45: ‘I am really in the gutter'

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 720.

2.
Quoted in Moyle,
Constance
, p. 313.

3.
Ibid., pp. 314–15.

4.
Ibid., pp. 317, 318.

5.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 708, 740, 766.

6.
Ibid., pp. 780, 787, 782.

7.
Ibid., pp. 772, 775, 781.

8.
Ibid., pp. 775, 791.

9.
Ibid., pp. 783, 785.

10.
Letter from Lily Wilde to More Adey, William Andrews Clark Library.

11.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 804, 805, 808, 809.

12.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, pp. 442–3.

13.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 817, 825.

14.
Ibid., pp. 827–8.

15.
Ibid., p. 828.

16.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 305.

17.
Ibid., p. 311.

18.
Ibid., p. 310.

19.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 847, 849, 852.

20.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 548.

Epilogue

1.
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde
, privately printed.

Bibliography

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