Playwrights and biographers have explored the life of Oscar Wilde in minute detail. The legal troubles of the scribe who amused and upset moralists by revealing the priggishness and hypocrisy of ...

Oscar Wilde’s self-destructive behavior is infamous, but most people know nothing about his unfortunate wife. Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy became intrigued with her untold story and the result ...

Being the wife of Oscar Wilde was an especially thankless lot in life. Eclipsed by her husband’s fame as the premier intellect and wit of Victorian society, then marginalized by his roaming ...

OSCAR WILDE'S DISGRACE; A Mother, Wife, and Two Children Must Share His Shame. POVERTY AT CADOGAN HOUSE A Mother's Desperate Struggle to Keep Up Appearances and Educate Her Sons.

As this “novel in five acts” opens in 1892, Oscar — seen through Constance’s eyes — is charmingly elusive, genuinely devoted to his wife and two sons but always in need of a larger audience.

Lloyd distanced herself from Wilde following his scandal and died at age 40 in 1898. Embankment Films will handle An Ideal Wife , which will be shopped this week at the American Film Market.

As Sturgis reminds us, Oscar was always a golden boy. His parents, Sir William Wilde, a distinguished eye surgeon, and his mother, a noted woman of letters nicknamed Speranza, hosted Dublin’s ...

The Irish writer Oscar Wilde stayed in a farmhouse in rural Norfolk, England, with his wife, Constance. He also stayed there with his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. And in 1892 he worked on his play ...

As passionate a patriot as his wife, ... The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family, by Emer O’Sullivan, Bloomsbury, RRP£25, 512 pages. Letter in response to this review.