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    • The enigmatic illness and death of Constance ... - The Lancet

      Intractable vomiting

      • On the third or fourth postoperative day, Constance developed intractable vomiting. Profoundly dehydrated and in the absence of intravenous fluids, she grew progressively weaker, lapsed into unconsciousness, and died on April 7, 1898.
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  2. Jan 3, 2015 · On the third or fourth postoperative day, Constance developed intractable vomiting. Profoundly dehydrated and in the absence of intravenous fluids, she grew progressively weaker, lapsed into unconsciousness, and died on April 7, 1898.

    • Ashley H Robins, Merlin Holland
    • 2015
  3. Jan 5, 2015 · For decades, historians of literature have mulled the untimely death that met Constance, the wife of the exuberant, scandalous writer Oscar Wilde. Now scientists say they know what killed Constant Wilde.

  4. 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. Constance’s life with Oscar was brief — a little more than ten years as London’s most famous literary couple — when in 1895 the secret ...

  5. death at the age of 40 years of his wife, Constance, who had been suff ering from a neurological disorder for about 10 years beforehand, has never been satisfactorily explained. We are now able to unravel the mystery, largely through new insights contained in private family papers held by Merlin Holland, grandson of Constance and Oscar Wilde.

  6. Constance Lloyd will for ever be remembered chiefly as Mrs Oscar Wilde, though she was an original and unusual person in her own right. As the subtitle of this new biography makes plain, Franny Moyle’s emphasis inevitably falls on the marriage and its aftermath, particularly the scandal and disaster that overtook Constance and her children ...

  7. Oct 11, 2023 · In fact, he and his wife, Constance Lloyd, were known for creating a "House Beautiful" in their early, happier years. So it was something of a terrible insult that for a very long time, Wilde was rumored to have died of syphilis, a rumor clearly inspired by his decadent lifestyle and gay affairs.

  8. Oct 4, 2021 · Married to a beautiful bohemian, Constance Lloyd, with one son and another on the way, and considering, à la Matthew Arnold, a sensible career as a school inspector, he was seized by a desire ...

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