On Some Days of the Week
Colm Tóibín: Mrs Oscar Wilde, 10 May 2012
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
by Franny Moyle.
John Murray, 374 pp., £9.99, February 2012,978 1 84854 164 1 Show More
by Franny Moyle.
John Murray, 374 pp., £9.99, February 2012,
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel.
Harvard, 295 pp., £25.95, April 2011,978 0 674 05792 0 Show More
by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel.
Harvard, 295 pp., £25.95, April 2011,
“... solicitor-general. He ‘was forced to retire from political and legal work for four years’, Franny Moyle writes in her illuminating biography of Constance, ‘during which time he went abroad to Athens and became a director of the Ionian Bank’. Constance Lloyd was born in London in 1859. Her grandfather, the streaker, was ‘an exceptionally ... ”