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 ClarkAmor.
Sidgwick, 249 pp., £8.95, June 1983,9780283989674 Show More
by Anne ClarkAmor.
Sidgwick, 249 pp., £8.95, June 1983,
“... but, heightened by the consciousness of love, they achieved another dimension of splendour.’ Anne ClarkAmor’s prose is less pestered with clichés, but she, too, sees Constance through Oscar, instead of establishing her as a separate personality. Thus Amor says at one ... ”
