by Franny Moyle
Brookfield, Charles, 263
Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron, 17
Browning, Oscar, 118
Browning, Robert, 52
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 3, 112, 131, 186, 226, 228, 262, 275, 283, 323
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady (‘Georgie’), 226, 228, 262, 269, 275–6
Burne-Jones, Margaret, 269
Burne-Jones, Philip, 269, 271–2
Burns, John, 149
Cadogan Hotel, London, 266
Café Royal, London, 13
Cairo, 232
Calderon, Philip Hermogenes, 58
Cambridge, Prince George William Frederick Charles, Duke of, 98
Cameron, Henry Herschel Hay, 213, 323
Campbell, Janey Sevilla, 139
Carfax Gallery, 327
Carson, Edward (later Baron), 259
Carte, Richard D’Oyly, 49
Catherine, Sister, 286
Chambers, Haddon: John-o-Dreams, 251
Chante, Mrs Ormiston, 155, 159
Charles Street, Mayfair, 53, 100
Chelsea Hospital for Women, 99
Christian Social Union, 244
Christian socialism, 185, 274–5
Chronicle, The, 307
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 9
Churchill, Sir Winston: sues Bosie, 326
Classics: revival of interest in, 112–13
Clewer (Windsor), 228
Clifton, Arthur, 202, 206, 210, 274, 277, 280, 297–8
Clifton, Marjorie, 210
Cobden, Jane, 154, 158
Cochrane, (later Admiral Sir) Basil and Cornelia (later Lady), 83–4, 192, 304
Colonel, The (play), 40
Cons, Emma, 154, 158
Conway, Alfonso, 262, 267
Cooper, Edith, 94–5
Cooper-Oakley, Isabel, 164, 166
Corelli, Marie, 151–2;; The Silver Domino, 152
Corkran, Alice, 130–1
Corkran, Henriette, 130, 225
Cosy Corner Stories (serial), 138
Crane, Walter, 3, 128
Cravan, Arthur see Lloyd, Fabian
Cromer see Felbrigg Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of, 232
Cunninghame Graham, Miss, 218
Cunninghame Graham, Robert, 107, 149–50, 161
Curzon, George Nathaniel (later Marquess), 108
Dante Alighieri: Inferno, 214, 217
Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire, 58–61
de Morgan, Evelyn, 30
Deschamps, Eugene, 326
Deschamps, Juliet (Lady Mount-Temple’s daughter), 159–60, 177, 181, 185–6, 269, 283, 326
Didaco (Italian actor), 322
Dilke, Mrs Ashton, 149
Dinard (Brittany), 225
Dixon, Eliza, 144
Dodgson, Campbell, 219–20
Donoghue, John, 90
Dorothy’s Restaurants, London, 164–5
Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’): accompanies Oscar to Algeria, 9–10, 253, 256; Oscar meets, 194–5;; blackmailed, 203; relations with Oscar, 204, 211, 216–17, 221–3, 249; stays with Wildes at Felbrigg, Norfolk, 206–7;; at Goring-on-Thames, 210, 224; at Babbacombe with Oscar, 219–20;; sent down after failing Oxford exams, 219, 229–30;; character and personality, 221; denies affecting Wildes’ marriage, 226; translation of Oscar’s Salome, 230; Oscar refuses to see, 232; sent to Cairo, 232; meets Oscar in Paris with Constance’s consent, 235–7;; father threatens, 237–8, 240; in Florence, 239; joins Oscar in Worthing, 247; satirized in The Green Carnation, 249; in Punch cartoon, 250–1;; supports Oscar’s legal action against father, 256–9;; leaves for Monte Carlo with Oscar, 259–60;; accompanies Oscar and Constance to theatre, 263–5;; attempts Oscar’s release from remand, 267–9;; flees to France, 274–5;; m Genoa, 290; Oscar turns against, 290; writes to Oscar after release, 307; Oscar stays with in Naples, 310; Constance hates, 314–15;; disparages Constance, 320; returns to London society, 323; as chief mourner at Oscar’s funeral, 324; inheritance on father’s death, 326; marriage and later life, 326; Robert Ross sues for criminal libel, 327
Douglas of Harwick, Lord Percy (later 9th Marquess of Queensberry), 256–7
Douglas, Olive (nee Custance; Lady Alfred Douglas), 326
Dramatic Review, 111, 114, 130
dress (fashion): in late Victorian period, 97–9;; rational, 109–11, 142, 144; Constance writes on, 140–1
Drummond, Henry, 185
Dublin: social life, 13, 15; Oscar lectures in, 71, 104
du Maurier, George, 40–1
Eden Club, Paris, 79
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII): suggests health exhibition, 98; sees Constance act in Helena in Troas, 114
Era, The (journal), 114
Eyton, Revd Richard, 244
Fane, Violet, 38
Favourite Nursery Stories, 138
Fawcett, Mary, 268
Fedden, Henry, 34–6, 44, 151
Fedden, Mary, 35
Felbrigg (near Cromer, Norfolk), 201, 204–7, 211–12
Fielding Club, London, 64
Fiorelli, Giuseppe, 112
Fitch, Clyde, 180
Fitzgerald, Mr (Constance’s suitor), 44
Fitzroy Street scandal (1894), 247
Fleming, George (i.e. Julia Constance Fletcher; aka Geoffrey Ker), 139
Florence (Italy), 218–19, 222, 239, 248.
Forbes, Colonel (at Delgaty Castle), 59, 61
Forbes-Robertson, Norman, 107
Ford, Emily, 30
Formidable (training ship), 35
Foster, Messrs (Pall Mall picture dealers), 323
Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 50
Frith, William Powell, 41
Gaiety Girl, A (stage musical), 209
Gide, Andre, 202
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck and Sir Arthur Sullivan; Patience, 41, 49
Girl’s Own Paper, The, 58
Gladstone, Catherine (WEG’s wife), 148, 153
Gladstone, William Ewart, 52, 148, 150, 157
Glion, Switzerland, 274, 277–8
Godwin, Edward: designs for Tite Street, 2, 37, 52, 86, 99–102;; stages Sophocles’ Helena in Troas, 112–13
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the: Constance joins, 168–73, 316; Constance reveals secrets to Oscar, 174
Goring-on-Thames, 209–11, 224–5
Goth, Emil, 209
Graham, Robert Cunninghame see Cunninghame Graham, Robert Grainger, “Walter, 210, 224, 262
Graphic, The (magazine), 179
Gray, John, 181, 203
Great International Fisheries exhibition, South Kensington (1883), 68, 98, 104
Great West End Scandal, The (pamphlet), 267
Green (Chelsea builder), 100
Greenaway, Kate, 141
Grenfell family, 192
Grossmith, George, 210
Grosvenor Gallery, London, 30–1, 93, 95
Haldane, Richard Burdon (later Viscount), 277–8, 280–1, 288
Hancock, Mr and Mrs Charles, 153
Harberton, Florence, Viscountess, 62, 109, III, 142, 153, 155, 162, 198
Hare, Miss (amateur actress), 113–14
Hargrove, J. S., 212, 279, 293, 297, 300, 323
Harris, Frank, 121, 180, 264, 322–3
Harris, Thomas Lake, 188
Harris, Walter: as godfather to Cyril, 9, 107, 193; and decor of Tite Street room, 102; travels, 107, 116; on Oscar’s declining sexual interest in Constance, 115; Constance sends letter to Oscar Browning, 118; Cunninghame Graham lives with in Morocco, 150
Harvey family, 61, 66, 236, 274
Hatchard’s (publishers), 142–3
Haymarket Theatre, London, 4, 8, 12, 223, 251
Headlam, Revd Stewart, 275, 301
‘Healtheries’ (health exhibition, 1884), 98–9, 104, 141
Hearne, Mr and Mrs (Babbacombe gardener and housekeeper), 214–15
Heidelberg (Germany), 291–3, 303
Hemphill, Charles Hare, 1st Baron, 13, 19, 4
3
Hemphill, Stanhope (Constance’s cousin): in Dublin, 15, 71; Constance declines marriage proposal, 43, 61–2
Hengler, Frederick Charles, 113
Hengler’s Circus, Argyll Street, London, 113
Hermetic Society, 168–9
Hermeticism, 167
Heron Allen, Edward, 107, 130, 169
Hichens, Robert Smythe: The Green Carnation (novel), 249–50
Hildersham House (school), Broadstairs, 239
Holland, Constance see Wilde, Constance
Holland, Cyril (Oscar–Constance’s son): portraits, 3, 197, 213; schooling and education in England, 4, 228, 236, 238–9, 284, 290, 324–5;; birth, 106–7;; horoscope prediction, 107; parents’devotion to, 108; Menpes gives etchings ofjapan to, 132; childhood and upbringing, 146–8, 160, 178; Constance favours over brother Vyvyan, 147, 197–8;; relations with brother, 147; in Herbert Vivian’s Reminiscences, 178–9;; Constance defends against perceived effeminacy, 180; and importunate neighbouring poor, 189; sees father off to Paris, 195; holiday in Hunstanton, 204–5;; whooping cough, 204; at Babbacombe, 214–15;; stays at Goring, 224–5;; and parents’ marriage difficulties, 234–5;; Arthur Humphreys gives money to buy fish, 245; in Worthing, 246–7;; sent to Ireland during Oscar’s trial, 270; name changed to Holland, 273, 284; leaves Ireland to live abroad, 274; in Switzerland after father’s sentence, 277, 280; tutored by Otho, 281; at school in Heidelberg, 291–2, 303–4;; stamp collecting, 293, 303; proposed guardianship, 294, 297, 299; acquires bicycle, 308; spends Christmas 1897 with Constance, 312; and mother’s death, 318; cared for by Napiers, 324; life after parents’ deaths, 324; told of father’s death, 324–5;; military service and death in First World War, 325; benefits from father’s literary estate, 326
Holland, Eugene (Otho–Mary’s son), 281, 327
Holland, Canon and Mrs Francis, 32–3
Holland, Hester (Otho-Mary’s daughter), 281, 327
Holland, Horace (Otho–Mary’s son), 327 Holland, Mary (nee Winter; Otho’s wife), 122, 146, 212, 279–81, 284, 286, 309, 327 Holland, Merlin (Vyvyan’s son), 325 Holland, Otho (born Lloyd; Constance’s brother): birth and upbringing, 14–15;; education, 16, 21, 23; and mother’s abuse of Constance, 19, 21; and Constance’s dress, 23, 92–3;; Constance’s correspondence and relations with, 25–8, 31–2, 48–9, 59–60, 69, 70, 90, 104–5, 146; inheritance from grandfather, 25, 100; Constance gives embroidered fire screen to, 33; in Betws-y-Coed, 34; and Constance’s attachment to Alec Shand, 35; in Vivian–Montgomery court case, 41–2;; exam failures and career prospects, 42–3;; and Oscar’s romantic interest in Constance, 46–7, 69; sends art material to Constance at Delgaty Castle, 59; Constance sends picture to for submission to art school, 61; and Constance’s life ambitions, 62, 108; attachment to Nellie Hutchinson, 69, 73; and Constance’s engagement to Oscar, 72–6;; letter warning Constance of Oscar, 72, 78–9;; declines peacock feather from. Constance, 83; and Constance’s honeymoon in Paris, 90; and Constance’s exhibition visiting, 104–5;; marriage to Nellie and children, 105, 122; hears Oscar lecture, no; and Constance’s writings, III; marriage and children with Mary Winter, 122–3, 146, 212, 279–81, 284, 286, 309, 327; Constance and Oscar borrow from, 124, 297, 299; gives book on Japanese art to Oscar, 132; Constance sends copy of’Was It a Dream?’to, 133; in Switzerland, 146; financial difficulties, 188, 193; returns to London, 188; flees back to continent, 193, 256; changes surname to Holland, 212; Constance repays debts to, 212; denies Constance’s knowledge of Oscar’s homosexual adventures, 229; Constance proposes letters project to, 241, 248; on Constance’s financial difficulties, 259; sees Oscar in gaol, 278; visits Constance in Glion, 278; and Hargrove, 279; and proposed reconciliation between Constance and Oscar, 279–80;; on Mile Schuwer’s misbehaviour, 280; Constance stays with in Switzerland, 281, 303, 308; tutors Cyril and Vyvyan, 281; joins Constance in Italy, 284; and Constance’s treatment by Dr Bossi, 286; letter from Constance on seeing Oscar in Reading gaol, 288; Constance writes to from Heidelberg, 292; proposes moving to Italy, 309; and Constance’s death, 317–18;; Greek translations, 327; return to England and death, 327–8
Holland, Otho, Jr (Otho-Nellie’s son), 122
Holland, Vyvyan (Oscar–Constance’s son): portrait, 3; denies Oscar designs Constance’s wedding dress, 85; and decor of Tite Street, 102; birth, 115–17;; on mother’s entertaining, 126; childhood and upbringing, 146–8, 225; moved around by Constance, 147, 225–6, 228; relations with brother, 147; sense of being undervalued by parents, 147, 197–8;; weak health, 147, 197; and importunate neighbouring poor, 189; stays with Palmers as boy, 197, 203; holiday inHunstanton, 204–5;; whooping cough, 204; atBabbacombe, 214–15;; visits Goring, 225; returns to Tite Street from Rottingdean, 234; accompanies mother to Torquay, 236; schooling in England, 236, 238–9, 284, 290, 324; Christmas holiday (1894), 252; name changed to Holland, 273, 284; toys sold at Tite Street auction, 273–4;; sent to Switzerland, 274, 277, 280; tutored by Otho, 281; at school in Heidelberg, 291–2, 302–4;; stamp collecting, 293, 303, 312; proposed guardianship, 294, 297, 299; transferred to Jesuit college in Monaco, 304–5;; interest in Catholicism, 305; mother’s growing appreciation of, 305, 312; letter from Constance on respect for Oscar, 317; andmother’s death, 318, 324; cared for by Napiers, 324; told of father’s death, 324–5;; army service in First World War, 325; literary career, 325; benefits from father’s literary estate, 326–7
Holland (Netherlands): Constance holidays in, 43
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 126–7
homosexuality: criminality, 121; Oscarwrites apologia for, 179–80;; popular distaste for, 269; Oscar’s views on afterprison, 307
Hope, Adrian: early acquaintance with Constance, 27; marriage to Laura, 39; and Oscar–Constance’s married life, 91; and Constance’s dress, 94–5;; on Wildes’ devotion to son Cyril, 108; friendship with Constance, 196, 252; and Oscar’s arrest, 267; Constance leaves whole estate to, 289; appointed legal co-guardian of Constance’s sons, 299; reports on Oscar to Constance, 312; and care for Constance’s sons after death, 318, 324; death, 325; bans Cyril and Vyvyan from benefit from Oscar’s literary estate, 326
Hope, Charles Beresford, 157–8
Hope, Laura (nee Troubridge): portrait of Cyril, 3; friendship with Oscar and Constance, 39, 196; marriage, 39; on Constance’s dress, 94–5;; on Cyril’s baby clothes, 108; in Florence, 218; children’s party in Tite Street, 252; disparages Oscar, 267; comforts Constance, 270; on death of Constance, 319
Howe, Maud, 50, 65
Howell & James (craft pottery firm), 57
Hulme, Frederick William, 34
Humphreys, Arthur: affair with Constance, 241–3, 250; publishes Oscariana, 241, 245–6;; in Florence, 248; sends books to Constance in Italy, 312
Humphreys, Charles Octavius, 240, 254, 257–8
Hunstanton (Cambridgeshire), 205
Hunt, Alfred, 51
Hunt, Violet, 51–2, 79
Hunt, William Holman, 37
Hutchinson, Nellie see Lloyd, Nellie
Huxley, Mr (at Delgaty Castle), 59–61
Hyde Park, London, 29–30
Illustrated London News, 8 International Arbitration and Peace Association: Women’s Committee, 150
International Exhibition of Inventions (‘Inventories’, 1884), 104
Ireland: Home Rule, 148–50, 156
Irving, Sir Henry, 38, 46–7, 130, 160
Italy: Constance visits (1893), 216–19, 221–2;; see also Bogliasco; Florence; Nervi
Ives, George, 239
Jaeger, Dr Gustav, 141
James, Henry, 8–9, 202
Japan: in Constance’s writing, 131–3, 138–9;; women’s dress, 144
Jerome, Jerome K., 251
Jeune, Mary, Lady, 238
Johnson, Lionel, 194–5
Jopling, Louise, 30, 90, 95, 113–14
Judy: The Conservative Comic, 264
Ker, Geoffrey see Fleming, George
Kimberley, Harold, 210
King, Mrs
E., 111
Kingsford, Algernon, 166
Kingsford, Anna, 85–7, 166–70;; The Perfect Way, or The Finding of Christ, 131, 166
Kirkes, Carrie (nee Lloyd; Constance’s aunt), 26, 32, 77, 83; bequest to Constance, 210
Kohler, Herr and Frau (of Hotel Schloss, Heidelberg), 303
Lacy, Charles de Lacy, 106, 115
Ladies’ Treasury (magazine), 87
Lady’s Own Paper, The, 166
Lady’s Pictorial, The (magazine), 7, 87, 92, 127–8;; Constance reviews for, 130
Lady’s World, The (magazine) see Woman’s World, The
Lancaster Gate, London, 28–30
Langtry, Lillie, 39–40, 80, 83, 106
Lathbury, Bertha, 182, 216, 225
Lathbury, Daniel, 182, 216
Lawes, Charles, 31–2
Leadenhall Press, 130–1
Lees, Lily see Wilde, Lily
Le Gallienne, Richard, 184
Leighton, Frederic, Baron, 38
Leonard, Bibidie, 181
Leslie, Mrs Frank (later Wilde; Willie’s first wife), 249
Leverson, Ada, 90, 117, 275
Leverson, Ernest, 275
Lewis, Sir George: as Oscar’s solicitor and negotiator, 56; attends Oscar–Constance wedding, 87; helps Bosie in blackmail case, 203; Queensberry retains, 240, 258; withdraws from Queensberry case, 258–9;; advises Constance after Oscar’s arrest, 271–2, 275, 279, 287
Liberty, Arthur, 24
Liberty and Co., Messrs, London, 24, 110, 131
Lilley family, 10
Lilley, Revd Mr, 243–4
Lilley and Skinner (shoe manufacturers), 111 Lippincott’s Magazine, 190–1
Little Holland House, Kensington, 212
Lloyd family: attitude to Oscar–Constance engagement, 73–6
Lloyd, Adelaide Barbara (Constance’s mother) see Swinburne-King, Adelaide Barbara
Lloyd, Carrie (Constance’s aunt) see Kirkes, Carrie
Lloyd, Emily (Constance’s aunt): home life, 26, 28; remains unmarried, 26; disapproves of Constance’s ambitions, 30, 73, 82; travels and holidays with father and Constance, 34, 43; father’s attitude to, 48; and Constance’s engagement to Oscar, 76; financial settlement, 77; nurses sick father, 83–4;; stands godmother to Cyril, 107; Constance looks after during illness, 196; legacy to Constance, 210
Lloyd, Fabian (‘Arthur Cravan’; Otho–Nellie’s son), 122, 327–8
Lloyd, Frederick (Constance’s uncle), 26
Lloyd, Horace (Constance’s father): marriage, 13–14;; character and behaviour, 14, 16–17;; career, 15; death, 19–20, 25