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2 days ago · Louis Bayard’s engrossing new novel “The Wildes” tells the story of the iconic writer’s wife and sons, and how the toll of public scandal shaped the family for decades. Phoebe Neidl. September 17, 2024. Nearly 125 years after Oscar Wilde's death, his name continues to be synonymous with wit. His mastery of the art of dialogue is perhaps ...
2 days ago · Review by Wendy Smith. September 17, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Constance Wilde knows how she appears to the public after her husband Oscar’s 1895 conviction for so-called acts of gross indecency ...
2 days ago · The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts revolves around that fateful summer: what happened, and what might have been. When it was exposed, Oscar's affair with Lord Alfred Douglas—Bosie, as he was known—led to Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality, and the financial and emotional ruin of his family.
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1 day ago · Louis Bayard researched the life, and particularly the trial, of Oscar Wilde, at the Library. Above: Wilde in 1882. Photo: Napoleon Sarony. Prints and Photographs Division. Bayard is 60 and comes across much like his books do: urbane, witty, charming. He was born in New Mexico, grew up in Northern Virginia and went to college at Princeton.
3 days ago · Wilde was born in Dublin and rose to fame in London in the early 1890s as a playwright (Salome; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest) and raconteur.
2 days ago · Olympe de Gouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ⓘ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
3 days ago · The first act begins with Wilde’s trial and conviction for committing sexual acts with men. From his prison bed, we see the memories of love that flood his mind.
