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Willie Wilde by Alfred Bryan. Willie was the oldest son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being 'Speranza'). Their second son, Oscar, was born in the same house in 1854. Jane Wilde was a successful writer, being a poet for the ...
- Journalism, poetry
- Dorothy Wilde
- Journalist, poet
- Oscar Wilde (brother)
Sep 22, 2020 · Lady Wilde had romantically exalted ideas about her children. The Irish nationalist and ‘poetess’ gave her second son, Oscar, his ‘grand, misty and Ossianic’ name, in the hope that he might be a poet. While for Oscar’s elder brother Willie she imagined a no less glorious destiny. ‘I will rear Him a Hero,’ she informed a family ...
Jun 6, 2016 · By now Wilde had been disowned by his long-suffering wife Constance. He threatened to blow out his brains in a “Neapolitan urinal” but died in Paris; like Willie before him, he was only 46 ...
William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era. He was the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Quick Facts Born, Died ...
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Oct 21, 2016 · Here are some facts from my biography, The Fall of the House of Wilde, you might not know. 1. America was where the young Irishman became “Oscar Wilde.”. He went there in his 20s to lecture on ...
Jun 17, 2016 · Oscar Wilde of course rests beneath a noble monument at Père Lachaise in Paris. Learning that Jane and Willie lie in unknown, unmarked graves leaves the reader with the saddest pang of all. The ...