Oscar and Constance
Tom Paulin, 17 November 1983
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp., £7.95, April 1983,0 241 10964 7 Show More
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp., £7.95, April 1983,
The Importance of Being Constance: A Biography of Oscar Wilde’s Wife
by Joyce Bentley.
Hale, 160 pp., £8.75, May 1983,0 7090 0538 5 Show More
by Joyce Bentley.
Hale, 160 pp., £8.75, May 1983,
Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance
by Anne Clark Amor.
Sidgwick, 249 pp., £8.95, June 1983,9780283989674 Show More
by Anne Clark Amor.
Sidgwick, 249 pp., £8.95, June 1983,
“... associated with the Fenian Movement. In 1882, Wilde told a lecture audience in San Francisco that Smith O’Brien, one of the leaders of the abortive uprising of 1848, was the ‘earliest hero of my childhood’, and he said that he had been trained by his mother to love and reverence the Fenians ‘as a Catholic child is the saints of the ... ”