The Fall of the House of Wilde (73 page)

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Acknowledgements

My first thanks go to Bloomsbury, my publishers. To my editor, Bill Swainson, formerly of Bloomsbury, I cannot adequately express my gratitude for his invaluable comments and suggestions, and for expertly editing my unwieldy first draft. I am also indebted to Alexandra Pringle for taking over from Bill and kindly giving me encouragement. And to the managing editor, Anna Simpson, superlatives do not suffice to express the thanks I owe for shepherding me through the whole process, with terrific skill and attention to detail. Thanks also to the whole Bloomsbury team who made this book: the gifted designer, David Mann, the publicist, Rachel Nicholson, and the invaluable Imogen Denny and Madeleine Feeny.

I must register a more private debt to the friends with whom I have discussed Wilde, but the warmest thanks to Gary McKeone for his unconditional humanity and for extraordinary kindness in introducing my proposal to Bill Swainson. Without him, my journey might not have begun.

Many people have helped me over the course of this research. I have given full details of specific debts of gratitude in my notes, but I also want to mention the librarians, archivists and staff of the London Library, the British Library, the National Library of Ireland, the William Clark Memorial Library and Reading University Library. Thanks to all for giving generously of your time and expertise, and especially to Amanda X at the London Library for her unstinting efforts on my behalf.

Thanks as well to Oscar Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, for kindly granting me permission to quote from unpublished letters and reproduce photographs, and for the interest he showed in this work.

Index

Abbey Theatre (Dublin), 
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Aberdeen, Lord, 
here

Academy
, 
here
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Act of Union, 
here
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here

Adey, William More, 
here
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here
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here
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Aeschylus, 
here
,
here

Aestheticism, 
here
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here
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here
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here
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here
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here
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here
,
here

and education, 
here

impact on public taste, 
here
,
here

and rise of consumerism, 
here

satirised in
Patience
, 
here
,
here

Whistler's attack on, 
here

Aitchison, George, 
here

Alcibiades, 
here

Alexander the Great, 
here

Alexander, George, 
here
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here
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here
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here
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here
,
here
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here
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here

Algiers, 
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here

American Civil War, 
here

Ancient Greece, homosexuality in, 
here

Andersen, Hans Christian, 
here

Anderson, Mary, 
here
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here

Anster, John, 
here

Apollonian art, 
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Aran Islands, 
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here

Archaeological Journal
, 
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Archer, William, 
here

Aristophanes, 
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Aristotle, 
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here

Armstrong, Richard, 
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Arnold, Matthew, 
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,
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art 

‘art for art's sake', 
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here
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here
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‘aspires to condition of music', 
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‘life imitates art', 
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see also 
Decadence

Arthur (butler), 
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artists' houses, 
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Arts and Crafts movement, 
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Asquith, H. H., 
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Athenaeum
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criticisms of Lady Wilde, 
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Atkins, Freddy, 
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Atkinson, Adelaide (Ada), 
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Atkinson, Ella, 
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Atkinson, Mary, 
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Atlantic Monthly
, 
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Aurelian, Emperor, 
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Austria, 
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Austrian Academy of Sciences, 
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Babbage, Charles, 
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Babington, C. C., 
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Baldwin, Robert, 
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Balfour, Arthur, 
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Balzac, Honoré de, 
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Barnes, Djuna, 
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Barney, Natalie Clifford, 
here

Barnum, P. T., 
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Battle of the Boyne, 
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Baudelaire, Charles, 
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Beardsley, Aubrey, 
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Beckett, Samuel, 
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Bedales School, 
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Beecher, Henry Ward, 
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Beerbohm, Max, 
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here

Belfast Mail
, 
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Benson, Lady, 
here

Bentley, Eric, 
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Berkeley, Bishop George, 
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Bernard-Beere, Mrs, 
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Bernhardt, Sarah, 
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Bible, the, 
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Gospels, 
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King James Bible, 
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Old Testament, 
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Ten Commandments, 
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Bingham Rectory, 
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Binstead, Arthur, 
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Blacker, Carlos, 
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Blackie, John Stuart, 
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Blackwood's
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Blake, William, 
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Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 
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Blegen, Carl, 
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‘Bloody Sunday', 
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Bloomsbury Group, 
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Bogue, David, 
here

Booth, Edwin, 
here

Bork, Sidonia von, 
here

Boston Pilot
, 
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Botticelli, Sandro, 
here

Boucicault, Dion, 
here

Boulton, Harold, 
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Bow Street magistrates' court, 
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here

Boyd, M., 
here

Brahms, Johannes, 
here

Brémont, Anna, Comtesse de, 
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here
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here

Bridge, Sir John, 
here

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
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British Museum, 
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Brontë, Charlotte, 
here

Brookfield, Charles, 
here

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 
here
,
here
,
here

Browning, Oscar, 
here

Browning, Robert, 
here

Buchanan-Brown, John, 
here

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 
here

Burke, Edmund, 
here
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here
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here

Burke, Oliver, 
here

Burke, T. H., 
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,
here

Burlington Magazine
, 
here

Burne-Jones, Edward, 
here
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here
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here
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here
,
here

Burne-Jones, Philip, 
here

Burnet, Frances Hodgson, 
here

Butler, Joseph, 
here

Butler, Samuel, 
here

Butt, Isaac, 
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Byron, Lord, 
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Café Royal, 
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Calderón, Pedro, 
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here
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Caledonian Mercury
, 
here

Callan, Margaret, 
here

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 
here

Cameron and Ferguson publishers, 
here

Campbell, Dr F. W., 
here

Campbell, Margaret, 
here

Canz, Wilhelmine Friederike Gottliebe, 
here

Carleton, William, 
here
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Carlisle, Earl of, 
here

Carlyle, Thomas, 
here
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Carson, Edward, 
here
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here
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here
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here
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Carstairs, Marion ‘Joe', 
here

Carte, Richard D'Oyly, 
here
,
here

Cassels, Richard, 
here

Catholic emancipation, 
here
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here
,
here
,
here
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here
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here
,
here

Cavendish, Frederick, 
here

Celtic Revival, 
here
,
here
,
here

Cervantes, Miguel de, 
here

Chamberlain, Joseph, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Charles I, King, 
here

Charles I
, 
here

Charles, Mr Justice, 
here

Chateaubriand, François-René de, 
here

Chatterton, Thomas, 
here
,
here

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 
here

Chelsea, gains artistic reputation, 
here

Chelsea Arts Club, 
here

Chopin, Frédéric, 
here

Christian socialists, 
here
,
here

Christianity 

Constance Wilde embraces, 
here
,
here

and morality, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and peasant customs, 
here

and procreative women, 
here

satirised in
Dorian Gray
, 
here
,
here

Christina, Queen of Sweden, 
here

Christy, Henry, 
here

Church of Ireland, 
here
,
here

Churchill, Winston, 
here

Cicero, 
here

Clarendon, Lord, 
here

Clark, Sir James, 
here

Clark, Kenneth, 
here

Clarke, Sir Edward, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Classics, study of, 
here
,
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