Shopping in Lucerne
E.S. Turner, 9 June 1994
Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn
by Joan Hardwick.
Deutsch, 306 pp., £20, June 1994,0 233 98866 1 Show More
by Joan Hardwick.
Deutsch, 306 pp., £20, June 1994,
Mother of Oscar: The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde
by Joy Melville.
Murray, 308 pp., £19.99, June 1994,0 7195 5102 1 Show More
by Joy Melville.
Murray, 308 pp., £19.99, June 1994,
“... vital parts. Another flamboyant, scandal-lapped, self-dramatising monstre sacrée surfaces in Joy Melville’s Mother of Oscar, a life of Lady Wilde, once famous as ‘Speranza’, the seditious Dublin belle of the potato famine. Born Jane Elgee, she too ran amok in the Classics and fantasised about her ancestors. In the late 1840s she wrote ... ”