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Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde

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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

 

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