The Fall of the House of Wilde (79 page)

Oscariana
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‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison', 
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Poems by Oscar Wilde
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‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.', 
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‘Ravenna', 
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‘The Remarkable Rocket', 
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‘Requiescat', 
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Salomé
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‘San Miniato', 
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‘The Selfish Giant', 
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‘The Soul of Man under Socialism', 
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‘The Sphinx', 
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‘The Truth of Masks', 
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Vera
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A Woman of No Importance
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Wilde, Ralph (I), 
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Wilde, Rev. Ralph (II), 
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Wilde, Dr Thomas Wills, 
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Wilde, Vyvyan, 
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Wilde, Sir William, 
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advocates racial hybridity, 
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ancestry, 
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Ancient Legends
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Ancient Cures
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appointed oculist to Queen Victoria, 
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attitude to nationalism, 
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Austria: Its Literary, Scientific, and Medical Institutions
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awarded Cunningham Gold Medal, 
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awarded knighthood, 
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awarded Order of the North Star, 
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The Beauties of the Boyne and the Blackwater
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bohemianism, 
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builds Bray properties, 
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Catalogue of Irish Antiquities
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The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life
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commitment to pluralism, 
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and daughters' deaths, 
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death and funeral, 
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domestic character, 
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establishes hospital, 
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fathers illegitimate children, 
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and Four Masters memorial, 
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friendship with Kraemers, 
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friendship with Mary Travers and libel trial, 
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A History of Irish Medicine
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ill health, 
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intellectual pursuits, 
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impact of libel trial, 
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Irish Popular Superstitions
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Lough Corrib
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marriage, 
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medical advances, 
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Memoir of Gabriel Beranger
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moves to Merrion Square, 
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and mysticism, 
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Narrative of a Voyage
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On the Physical, Moral and Social Condition of the Deaf and Dumb
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Practical Observations on Aural Surgery
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Saturday dinners, 
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Scandinavian visits, 
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shares Ruskin's eclecticism, 
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studies medicine, 
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and tobacco, 
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travels abroad, 
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visits Aran Islands, 
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and wife's pension, 
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his will, 
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writing style, 
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Wilde, William Charles Kingsbury, 
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admires Oscar, 
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appearance, 
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becomes increasingly work-shy, 
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benefits from Wilson's legacy, 
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called to the bar, 
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compared and contrasted with Oscar, 
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and daughter's birth, 
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death and burial, 
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declared bankrupt, 
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drinking, 
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extravagance, 
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and father's will, 
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gives up law, 
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impotence, 
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journalistic career, 
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life in London, 
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marriage plans, 
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marriage with Mrs Frank Leslie, 
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marriage with Lily Lees, 
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and mother's death, 
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and mother's financial difficulties, 
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moves to London, 
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and Oscar's celebrity, 
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and Oscar's marriage, 
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and Oscar's Newdigate Prize, 
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publishes plays, 
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reunion with Oscar, 
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rift with Oscar, 
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schooling, 
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sells Oscar's possessions, 
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university education, 
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writes ‘Oscar Wilde the Aesthete', 
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Wills, Mr Justice, 
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Wilson, Henry, 
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Wilson, T. G., 
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Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 
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women's clothes, 
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women's suffrage, 
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Women's World
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Wood, Alfred, 
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Woolf, Virginia, 
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Woolridge, Charles Thomas, 
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Wordsworth, Dorothy, 
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Wordsworth, William, 
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World
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Wormwood Scrubs, 
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Worth, Charles Frederick, 
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Wright, Sydney, 
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Wyatt, Digby, 
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Wyndham, George, 
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Yates, Edmund, 
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Yeats, John Butler, 
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Yeats, W. B., 
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‘The Crucifixion of the Outcast', 
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and folklore, 
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‘The Tower', 
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Young, Dalhousie, 
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Young Ireland, 
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Zambaco, Maria, 
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Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, 
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Zola, Émile, 
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A Note on the Author

Emer O'Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf's literature at UEA, where she also lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London.

Plate Section

Merrion Square, one of Dublin's best addresses, to where the Wildes moved in 1855 and where Jane Wilde, Oscar's mother, established her renowned salon.

 

William Wilde as a young man of thirty-three, from a drawing by J. H. Maguire. By this time he was a surgeon and author.

 

Lady Jane Wilde displaying the hauteur for which she was known.