Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde

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  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Wilde's Women Eleanor Fitzsimons, 2017-09-26 “A lively debut biography of the flamboyant Irish writer . . . focusing on the women who loved and supported him” (Kirkus Reviews). In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly, who, like Wilde, loved fast cars, cocaine, and foreign women. Fresh, revealing, and entertaining, full of fascinating detail and anecdotes, Wilde’s Women relates the untold story of how a beloved writer and libertine played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women, and how they supported him in the midst of a Victorian society in the process of changing forever. “Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr . . . provide[s] a potted biography of the multitalented writer and gay icon . . . highly enjoyable.” —The Washington Post “Fitzsimons brilliantly calls attention to the progressive ideas and beliefs which drew the most daring and interesting women of the time to his side. The depth and painstaking care of Fitzsimons’ research is a fitting tribute to Wilde’s fascinating life and exquisite writing—and really, what better compliment is there than that?” —High Voltage
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde in America Oscar Wilde, 2010-01-06 Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Lillie Langtry Laura Beatty, 2012-01-31 Mrs Langtry - born a provincial in 1853, died rich and lonely in 1929 - was surrounded by scandal, luxary and gossip; but this new book goes beyond these outward trappings to lift the masks that Oscar Wilde, her friend and mentor, taught her to wear. It is not so much a life as a series of lives - each one distinct from the next - as Lillie reinvented herself. At its centre are the love letters written by Lillie to Arthur Jones, her childhood friend and secret lover, at the time of her fall from Society, her near-bankruptcy, and the birth of her illegitimate daughter at a hidden address in Paris. Laura Beatty captures exactly the spirit of the age, and reveals a passionate woman for whom the charge of opportunism was by no means the whole story.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Declaring His Genius Roy Morris Jr., 2013-01-07 Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde’s eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: “We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?” Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post–Civil War Americans—still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history—understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Days I Knew Lillie Langtry, 1925 Erindringer.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Making Oscar Wilde Michèle Mendelssohn, 2018 Packed with new evidence, Making Oscar Wilde tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michèle Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Art of the Pose Heather Marcovitch, 2010 This book revisits Oscar Wilde's major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University, his famous lecture tour of the United States and Canada, his friendships with famous actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry, the writing of his critical essays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, and his society comedies, and culminating in his post-prison writings De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde develops a rich theory of performance that addresses aesthetics, ethics, identity and individualism. This book also traces Wilde's often-troubled relationship with late-Victorian society in terms of its attempts to define his public performances by stereotyping him as both irrelevant and dangerous, from the early newspaper caricatures to its later description of him as a sexual monster.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde Joseph Pearce, 2004 Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Lillie Langtry Laura Beatty, 1999 Lillie Langtry - 'Jersey Lillie' - born, a provincial in 1853, was catapulted by her beauty into the highest society London had to offer. Surrounded by scandal, luxary and gossip, she bacame the mistress of the Prince of Wales, the goddess of Bohemia and the protegee of Oscar Wilde. After four years, she disappeared, bankcrupt, and pregnant with an illegitimate child. When she resurfaced, guided by Wilde, it was with the masks of several new and invented selves for protection. This book attempts to unravel her complex fictions about herself, to find the person behind the actress, gambler and iconoclast that she then became. At its centre are the previously unpublished letters which she wrote to her childhood friend and secret lover, Arthur Jones, during her period of crisis and collapse. Despairing, fervent and pathetically dependent, these letters reveal a passionate woman for whom the usual charges of coldness and opportunism are by no means the whole story. She died, broken in spirit but world-famous and a millionaire, in 1929. Laura Beatty captures exactly the spirit of the age, and lifts the masks to reveal the real Lillie.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity David M. Friedman, 2014-10-06 The story of Oscar Wilde’s landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous. On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old “genius”—at least by his own reckoning—arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert & Sullivan wrote an operetta lampooning him. He was hired to go to America to promote that work by presenting lectures on interior decorating. But Wilde had his own business plan. He would go to promote himself. And he did, traveling some 15,000 miles and visiting 150 American cities as he created a template for fame creation that still works today. Though Wilde was only the author of a self-published book of poems and an unproduced play, he presented himself as a “star,” taking the stage in satin breeches and a velvet coat with lace trim as he sang the praises of sconces and embroidered pillows—and himself. What Wilde so presciently understood is that fame could launch a career as well as cap one. David M. Friedman’s lively and often hilarious narrative whisks us across nineteenth-century America, from the mansions of Gilded Age Manhattan to roller-skating rinks in Indiana, from an opium den in San Francisco to the bottom of the Matchless silver mine in Colorado—then the richest on earth—where Wilde dined with twelve gobsmacked miners, later describing their feast to his friends in London as “First course: whiskey. Second course: whiskey. Third course: whiskey.” But, as Friedman shows, Wilde was no mere clown; he was a strategist. From his antics in London to his manipulation of the media—Wilde gave 100 interviews in America, more than anyone else in the world in 1882—he designed every move to increase his renown. There had been famous people before him, but Wilde was the first to become famous for being famous. Wilde in America is an enchanting tale of travel and transformation, comedy and capitalism—an unforgettable story that teaches us about our present as well as our past.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily Katie Forgette, 2009 The wit of Oscar Wilde meets the cunning of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when Wilde brings his dear friend, Lillie Langtry, to Baker Street. Someone has stolen the highly intimate letters Lillie exchanged with the Prince of Wales, and now she is being blackmailed. Only Holmes can solve the case, going so far as to disguise himself as an early version of Lady Bracknell from Wilde's latest play, The Importance of Being Forthright, while Watson falls head-over-heels for the Jersey Lily and a wicked professor attempts to bring the Crown to its knees.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Invention of Oscar Wilde Nicholas Frankel, 2021-06-10 “One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The King in Love Theo Aronson, 2020-11-12 An all-embracing account of the loves of that royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King. Spanning three decades, the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Victorian and Edwardian Fashion Alison Gernsheim, 2013-04-09 Bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 to 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and members of the middle class as well as celebrities.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers Gyles Brandreth, 2010 The fourth of Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more interested in Rex LaSalle, a young actor, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire...However, what begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. As the guests are leaving, the Duchess is found murdered, two tiny puncture marks in her throat. No one has entered the house; no one has left. Desperate to avoid another scandal, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate the crime.What he discovers threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family...
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Quintessential Wilde Annette M. Magid, 2017-01-06 This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth, celebrating the writer’s genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores a broad spectrum of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, children’s literature, jail writings, novel, poetry, individualism, masks, homosexuality, influence on others, and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts and features a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a range of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde, his aesthetics and his influence in a variety of genres in the twenty-first century. The multiplicity of interest in the writer expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time. Quintessential Wilde examines his intellectual strength in “His Worldly Place,” analyzes his ingenious thoughts in “His Penetrating Philosophy,” and recounts his enduring place in “His Influential Aestheticism.”
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde Discovers America Louis Edwards, 2003-01-28 This compelling and unique fictional foray into American history follows a brilliantly conjured Wilde and his young black valet on a whirlwind tour across the country from high-society Newport to the deep south.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: She Loves Me Not Ron Hansen, 2016-10-04 “Beautifully crafted stories from one of our most honored authors” (The New York Times), Ron Hansen’s She Loves Me Not is an acclaimed collection of stunning fiction, three decades in the writing. Ron Hansen has long been celebrated as a master of both the novel and the short form. His stories have been called “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review) and “wise and smart” (The Washington Post). In She Loves Me Not, the subjects of Hansen’s scrutiny range from Oscar Wilde to murder to dementia to romance, and display Hansen at his storytelling best: These are “unforgettable stories, each utterly different from the one before….This is writing that slows the breathing” (San Francisco Chronicle). Readers will thrill to Hansen’s masterful attention to the smallest and most telling details, even as he plunges straight into the deepest recesses of desire, love, fury, and loss. Magisterial in its scope and surprising in its variety, She Loves Me Not shows an author at the height of his powers and confirms Hansen’s place as a major American writer. This breathtaking collection “should put him on the short-story map” (USA TODAY). She Loves Me Not contains an excerpt from Hansen’s new novel, The Kid, to be published in fall, 2016.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Additions and Corrections to Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde Horst Schroeder, 2002
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Circle Simon Callow, 2013 .Includes entertaining, thumbnail biographies of the key figures at the forefront of the theme or movement, or who were closely connected to the personality in question .Updated from the highly successful seriesCharacter SketchesandInsights, and refreshed with a contemporary design and accessible format One of literature's most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him - including Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Max Beerbohm and Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) - Simon Callow captures the spirit of one of Britain's most feted, but ultimately tragic literary figures.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: On Art and Life John Ruskin, 2005-09-06 Includes two of John Ruskin's famous essays: The Nature of the Gothic and The Work of Iron from his book The Stones of Venice. Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Theatrical Photographs of Napoleon Sarony Ben L. Bassham, 1978
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The House Beautiful Charlotte Gere, Lesley Hoskins, 2000 Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Geffrye Museum, London, 18 July 2000 - 21 January 2001.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann, 2013-09-04 Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: ALL AT SEA Lillie Langtry, 2021-11-21 This book is a reproduction from the original text. Chapter I MRS. RENSHAW, charming and most insouciante of widows, looked round the pretty little room in Green Street, Mayfair, and sighed-sighed because nowhere could her eyes alight without encountering a portrait of the man she was about to marry; and the man she was about to marry was not beautiful to look upon. He had plain, undistinguished features and not very much hair; but, then, he loved her devotedly, and he was a Park Lane millionaire. I ought to be very happy, she thought to herself reproachfully, hastily changing her glance from Mr. Gattlinger in fancy dress to Mr. Gattlinger playing golf in very wide knickerbockers. He is absurdly rich, and really not so very bad looking. Then she closed her eyes that she might see him no more, and thought of the late Mr. Renshaw, killed steeplechasing in the prime of life. In a moment or two, however, Mrs. Renshaw opened one eye again to look warily at the clock. I wish Minnie would be more punctual, she reflected; she always cheers me up, and, -glancing at the tea-table-there is nothing quite so nasty as sodden muffins The doors were thrown open and Lady Vernham was announced. Mrs. Renshaw rose and threw herself into her visitor's arms. You wretch-to be so late she exclaimed gaily, giving her a violent kiss. Am I late? asked Lady Vernham, smiling at the boisterous welcome. I have had such a lot of shopping to do, and I wanted to get it all off my mind before coming to hear your great news. The great news of my marriage? said Mrs. Renshaw. Yes, isn't it dreadful? Dreadful? Well-I mean, unexpected. I was not the least surprised-I have long ceased to be surprised at anything you do.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde Juliet Gardiner, 1995 Tells the story of Oscar Wilde's life through selected letters, lectures, journalism, poetry, plays and novels
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde E.H. Mikhail, 1979-06-17
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Green Carnation Robert Hichens, 1894
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde Matthew Sturgis, 2021-10-12 The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. Simply the best modern biography of Wilde. —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man to his times, and to the facts, giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, already noticeable everywhere . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws (the blackmailer's charter); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Heir Apparent Jane Ridley, 2013-12-03 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley draws on numerous primary sources to paint a vivid portrait of the man and the age to which he gave his name. Born Prince Albert Edward, and known to familiars as “Bertie,” the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton, and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state, and the architect of Britain’s modern constitutional monarchy. Jane Ridley’s colorful biography rescues the man once derided as “Edward the Caresser” from the clutches of his historical detractors. Excerpts from letters and diaries shed new light on Bertie’s long power struggle with Queen Victoria, illuminating one of the most emotionally fraught mother-son relationships in history. Considerable attention is paid to King Edward’s campaign of personal diplomacy abroad and his valiant efforts to reform the political system at home. Separating truth from legend, Ridley also explores Bertie’s relationships with the women in his life. Their ranks comprised his wife, the stunning Danish princess Alexandra, along with some of the great beauties of the era: the actress Lillie Langtry, longtime “royal mistress” Alice Keppel (the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles), and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston. Edward VII waited nearly six decades for his chance to rule, then did so with considerable panache and aplomb. A magnificent life of an unexpectedly impressive king, The Heir Apparent documents the remarkable transformation of a man—and a monarchy—at the dawn of a new century. Praise for The Heir Apparent “If [The Heir Apparent] isn’t the definitive life story of this fascinating figure of British history, then nothing ever will be.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Heir Apparent is smart, it’s fascinating, it’s sometimes funny, it’s well-documented and it reads like a novel, with Bertie so vivid he nearly leaps from the page, cigars and all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “I closed The Heir Apparent with admiration and a kind of wry exhilaration.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ridley is a serious scholar and historian, who keeps Bertie’s flaws and virtues in a fine balance.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliantly entertaining . . . a landmark royal biography.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Wildeana (riverrun Editions) OSCAR. WILDE, 2021-10-14
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Wilde Julian Mitchell, 1997 To tie-in with the 1997 film release, here is the true story of Oscar Wilde, the man who amused and shocked Edwardian London by becoming an icon of profound artistry, the vilest depravity, and the highest ideals of personal, social, and sexual freedom. With extraordinary depth, humor, and sensitivity, the book follows Wilde's career and personal life. Through it all, Wilde emerges as a man of charm and substance, a true philosopherperhaps simply born before his time.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, 2017-10-24 This selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he was in the late 1800s. This edition includes essays on interior design, prison reform, Shakespeare, the dramatic dialogue Decay of Lying and the seminal Soul of Man.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Street of Wonderful Possibilities Devon Cox, 2022-04-05 A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived between the 1870s and 1930s, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent. It provides a new, fresh perspective on legendary figures in British art and literature and explores the relationship between these artists and their living environment. Today Tite Street is a narrow, quiet thoroughfare tucked away in a cosy corner of London. With the exception of a few blue plaques upon its walls, there is little indication of the rich and vibrant history of a street that once stood at the heart of the London art world. In this thriving artistic quarter, artists and writers created a bohemian enclave that would challenge Victorian values in art and literature. For Oscar Wilde, Tite Street was full of 'wonderful possibilities', while for Whistler it was 'the birthplace of art' where the nascent Aesthetic Movement was nurtured in his highly controversial White House. From the studios and houses of Tite Street issued modern masterpieces in art such as Whistler's Harmony in Pink and Greyand Sargent's Lady Agnew, and in literature with Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.But Tite Street had a dark side as well. Here Whistler was bankrupted, Frank Miles was sent to an asylum, Wilde was imprisoned, and Peter Warlock was gassed to death. Throughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the Aesthetic Movement to the Edwardian suffragettes, through the bombs of the Blitz in the 1940s to the bombs of the IRA in the 1970s, Tite Street remained a home to innumerable artists and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen. Countless biographies have explored the major figures in Tite Street individually, but never in the context of their living and working environment. The Street of Wonderful Possibilitiesunfolds this complex history, tying together the private and professional lives of Tite Street's artists, writers and bohemians to form a colourful tapestry of art and intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Love in a Dark Time Colm Toibin, 2004-06-02 Colm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions through reading. Colm Tóibín examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives, either by choice or necessity. The larger world couldn't know about their sexuality, but in their private lives, and in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire defined their expression. This is an intimate encounter with Mann, Baldwin, Bishop, and with the contemporary poets Thom Gunn and Mark Doty. Through their work, Tóibín is able to come to terms with his own inner desires—his interest in secret erotic energy, his admiration for courageous figures, and his abiding fascination with sadness and tragedy. Tóibín looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter Diana Souhami, 2014-10-14 Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde Matthew Sturgis, 2021-10-12 The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. Simply the best modern biography of Wilde. —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man to his times, and to the facts, giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, already noticeable everywhere . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws (the blackmailer's charter); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: The Nihilists Oscar Wilde, 2017
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde, Interviews and Recollections E. H. Mikhail, 1979
  lillie langtry and oscar wilde: Oscar Wilde E. H. Mikhail, 1979
Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde - flexlm.seti.org
In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie …

THE OSCAR I KNEW - Springer
His mother, Lady Wilde, lived a retired life in Onslow Square, sometimes emerging from her seclusion to give an afternoon at-home guests invited by her two sons.

Lillie Langtry Oscar Wilde [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
At the heart of this ferment were figures like Oscar Wilde, the incandescent wit, and Lillie Langtry, the celebrated beauty whose allure captivated both high society and the public imagination.

Nothing Is True But Beauty: Oscar Wilde in the Aesthetic Movement
Wilde is deservedly remembered as an icon of the nineteenth century for his sublime wit and his singular image; however, that status often obscures his contributions to the Aesthetic Movement.

The Art of the Pose. Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory
Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory. This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of …

Oscar Wilde: an Oxford - Springer
OSCAR WILDE AT OXFORD the condition would ever be fulfilled, and indeed the stone was set and worn by the lady whom Fairlie had married. But the great downfall came; the term of …

History 101 The Scandalous Lily Langtry - matchpro.org
Lillie was educated by her brothers' tutor, becoming unusually well educated for women of the time. In 1874, twenty-year-old Lillie married twenty-six-year-old Irish landowner Edward Langtry.

Oscar Wilde's Lecture Tours of the United Kingdom, 1883-85
In this article I am presenting the most complete and accurate list we have of the lectures Oscar Wilde gave in the United Kingdom, 1883-85. Whilst. several other researchers for their work on …

Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde Full PDF - assets.creonline.com
Bohemia and the protegee of Oscar Wilde After four years she disappeared bankcrupt and pregnant with an illegitimate child When she resurfaced guided by Wilde it was with the masks of several …

OSCAR WILDE INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Springer
drawings of Lillie Langtry did much to enhance her popularity. In the autumn of I 879, Wilde was installed in London; he shared rooms with Miles in Salisbury

Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde [PDF] - netsec.csuci.edu
Introduction: The Golden Age of Aestheticism and Beauty: Setting the scene of the era, highlighting the importance of beauty and art in Victorian society. Lil'lie Langtry: A Siren of the Stage and …

PRIVATE VIEWS William Powell Frith, Harry Furniss and Oscar Wilde
News in 1879.20 However, Wilde was clearly an outsider at the Royal Academy: many of the academic paintings, moralising religious parables and heroic battle scenes, would not have been …

AT HOME WITH OSCAR: CONSTRUCTING 'THE HOUSE …
Wilde was swift to take up the mission of beautifying the home, following in the footsteps of William Morris, who declared: 'If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art …

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
Wilde expanded his skills as an astute editor, transforming the mainly conservative Lady’s World into the largely feminist Woman’s World, in which his “Literary Notes” reveal his deep …

Devon Cox. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde …
Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry) and of course renowned poets and writers (Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Meredith, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, Algernon Swinburne, Mark …

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- Chapter II
Irish poet, and Lillie Langtry, mistress to the Prince of Wales. A great conversationalist and a famous wit, Wilde began by publishing mediocre poetry but soon achieved widespread fame for his …

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily (1st ed.
Setting elements for Lillie’s dressing room, Moriarty’s office and the Hamilton works should be minimal—the dressing room scene al- most like “the memory” of the incident.

Oscar Wilde Lillie Langtry (PDF) - beta-reference.getdrafts.com
In todays digital age, the availability of Oscar Wilde Lillie Langtry books and manuals for download has revolutionized the way we access information. Gone are the days of physically flipping …

OSCAR WILDE - JSTOR
16 Oct 2018 · The ongoing interest in Oscar Wilde as a 19th century dramatist, author and poet is greatly overshadowed by the continuing fascination with his life and personality.

Oscar Wilde and the Dynamics of Reputation - JSTOR
Wilde's literary reputation rests almost exclusively on the body of work he created from 1888 to the Ballad of Reading Goal ten years later, covering the third and fourth phases of the development …

Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde - flexlm.seti.org
In this essential work, Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Oscar Wilde’s story and his legacy through the women in his life, including such scintillating figures as Florence Balcombe; actress Lillie Langtry; and his tragic and witty niece, Dolly,

THE OSCAR I KNEW - Springer
His mother, Lady Wilde, lived a retired life in Onslow Square, sometimes emerging from her seclusion to give an afternoon at-home guests invited by her two sons.

Lillie Langtry Oscar Wilde [PDF] - archive.ncarb.org
At the heart of this ferment were figures like Oscar Wilde, the incandescent wit, and Lillie Langtry, the celebrated beauty whose allure captivated both high society and the public imagination.

Nothing Is True But Beauty: Oscar Wilde in the Aesthetic Movement
Wilde is deservedly remembered as an icon of the nineteenth century for his sublime wit and his singular image; however, that status often obscures his contributions to the Aesthetic Movement.

The Art of the Pose. Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory
Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory. This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics.

Oscar Wilde: an Oxford - Springer
OSCAR WILDE AT OXFORD the condition would ever be fulfilled, and indeed the stone was set and worn by the lady whom Fairlie had married. But the great downfall came; the term of imprisonment ended; soon ended, too, the short life of the exile, and all the world read in the newspaper that Oscar Wilde had died a

History 101 The Scandalous Lily Langtry - matchpro.org
Lillie was educated by her brothers' tutor, becoming unusually well educated for women of the time. In 1874, twenty-year-old Lillie married twenty-six-year-old Irish landowner Edward Langtry.

Oscar Wilde's Lecture Tours of the United Kingdom, 1883-85
In this article I am presenting the most complete and accurate list we have of the lectures Oscar Wilde gave in the United Kingdom, 1883-85. Whilst. several other researchers for their work on this aspect of Oscar's life. I am particularly grateful to …

Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde Full PDF - assets.creonline.com
Bohemia and the protegee of Oscar Wilde After four years she disappeared bankcrupt and pregnant with an illegitimate child When she resurfaced guided by Wilde it was with the masks of several new and invented selves for protection This book attempts to unravel her

OSCAR WILDE INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Springer
drawings of Lillie Langtry did much to enhance her popularity. In the autumn of I 879, Wilde was installed in London; he shared rooms with Miles in Salisbury

Lillie Langtry And Oscar Wilde [PDF] - netsec.csuci.edu
Introduction: The Golden Age of Aestheticism and Beauty: Setting the scene of the era, highlighting the importance of beauty and art in Victorian society. Lil'lie Langtry: A Siren of the Stage and Society: Exploring Langtry's early life, rise to fame, and impact on fashion and culture.

PRIVATE VIEWS William Powell Frith, Harry Furniss and Oscar Wilde
News in 1879.20 However, Wilde was clearly an outsider at the Royal Academy: many of the academic paintings, moralising religious parables and heroic battle scenes, would not have been to his Aesthetic tastes. A ‘self-elected’ critic, Wilde is denounced by Frith as an imposter who exploits a fad rather than endorsing the traditions of the

AT HOME WITH OSCAR: CONSTRUCTING 'THE HOUSE …
Wilde was swift to take up the mission of beautifying the home, following in the footsteps of William Morris, who declared: 'If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for I should answer, A. beautiful House.

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
Wilde expanded his skills as an astute editor, transforming the mainly conservative Lady’s World into the largely feminist Woman’s World, in which his “Literary Notes” reveal his deep acquaintance with modern writing.

Devon Cox. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde …
Bernhardt, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry) and of course renowned poets and writers (Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Meredith, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, Algernon Swinburne, Mark Twain).

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray- Chapter II
Irish poet, and Lillie Langtry, mistress to the Prince of Wales. A great conversationalist and a famous wit, Wilde began by publishing mediocre poetry but soon achieved widespread fame for his comic plays.

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Jersey Lily (1st ed. - 08.04.09 ...
Setting elements for Lillie’s dressing room, Moriarty’s office and the Hamilton works should be minimal—the dressing room scene al- most like “the memory” of the incident.

Oscar Wilde Lillie Langtry (PDF) - beta-reference.getdrafts.com
In todays digital age, the availability of Oscar Wilde Lillie Langtry books and manuals for download has revolutionized the way we access information. Gone are the days of physically flipping through pages and carrying heavy textbooks or manuals.

OSCAR WILDE - JSTOR
16 Oct 2018 · The ongoing interest in Oscar Wilde as a 19th century dramatist, author and poet is greatly overshadowed by the continuing fascination with his life and personality.

Oscar Wilde and the Dynamics of Reputation - JSTOR
Wilde's literary reputation rests almost exclusively on the body of work he created from 1888 to the Ballad of Reading Goal ten years later, covering the third and fourth phases of the development of his reputation.