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Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan . Early life and marriage. Constance with her son Cyril in 1889.
Jan 21, 2014 · It was a circle in which young Constance Lloyd found herself enthralled and seduced by its rising star, the critic, poet, and playboy Oscar Wilde, the twentieth century’s first pop culture celebrity.
Jan 3, 2015 · Born in London on Jan 2, 1858, Constance Lloyd married Oscar Wilde in 1884 and had two sons in 1885 and 1886. After Oscar's conviction and imprisonment for homosexual acts in May, 1895, she and the children fled to Europe to escape the backlash of his scandal, changing their surname to “Holland”, an ancestral family name already ...
Dec 16, 2019 · Part of a gilded couple, Constance Wilde was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society The Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spirit encouraged her to sample some of the more controversial aspects of her time. Mrs. Oscar Wilde was a ...
A slew of unpublished letters, unveiled by Constance's and Oscar's grandson, Merlin Holland, revealed that she met her end by the knife of an irresponsible surgeon.
Mar 15, 2013 · Two sketchier, nearly forgotten biographies of Constance Wilde appeared in 1983, and millions of words have been written about her husband’s tragedy.
Oct 9, 2012 · “Tells the poignant story of Constance in the aftermath of Wilde’s trials and imprisonment, and of her brave attempts to keep in contact with him despite her suffering.” — The Irish Times In...
Apr 27, 2017 · Campaigner for suffrage and rational dress, and wife of Oscar Wilde. London. 1859 – 1898. In Oscar Wilde: a Summing Up, Lord Alfred Douglas, the love of Wilde’s later life, wrote about Wilde’s marriage to Constance Lloyd. He characterised it as ‘a marriage of deep love and affection on both sides’.
The enigmatic illness and death of Constance, wife of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde has always been beset by gossip, scandal, and myth making, as much posthumously as during his lifetime. Even as late as 1987 his best biographer to date, Richard Ellmann, reproduced a photograph purporting to be Wilde in drag as Salomé, but which turned out to be.
A founding member of the magical society the Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spirit encouraged her to sample some of the more controversial aspects of her time. Mrs Oscar Wilde was a...
