Franny Moyle (57 page)

Sherard, Robert Harborough,
The Life of Oscar Wilde
(Werner Laurie, London, 1906)

Terry, Ellen,
Memoirs
(Gollancz, London, 1933)

Tollemache, Baron,
Some Reminiscences of the Early Life of Georgina, Lady Mount Temple, by Her Surviving Brother
(Helmingham, 1890)

Tweedie, Mrs Alec,
Hyde Park: Its History and Romance
(Eveleigh Nash, London, 1908)

Vyver, Bertha,
Memoirs of Maria Corelli
(Alston Rivers, London, 1930)

Wilde, Constance,
The Bairn's Annual
(Leadenhall Press, London, 1887)

——,
There Was Once: Grandma's Stories
(Ernest Nister, London, 1888)

——,
A Long Time Ago
(Ernest Nister, London, 1892)

——,
A Dandy Chair
(Ernest Nister, London, 1893)

——,
Cosy Corner
(Ernest Nister, London, 1895)

——,
Favourite Nursery Stories
(Ernest Nister, London, n. d.)

Wilde, Oscar,
The Complete Works
(HarperCollins, London, 2003)

Yeats, W. B.,
Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil
(Macmillan & Co., London, 1926)

Illustration Acknowledgements

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles: 6 below
/Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal December
, 1886; 7 above left (Acc:BX-2N.2.16b); 12 above
left/Great Expectations!
cartoon by Phil May, 1895; 12
below/New York Standard
1895; 14 above (Acc:BX-3N.II).

Getty Images: 6 above; 7 below.

John Holland Collection: 2 above left and above right; 11 above right.

Merlin Holland Picture Archive: 1; 2 below left and below right; 3; 4 above left and above right; 5 below; 7 above right; 8; 9; 10; 11 above left; 13; 14 below left and below right; 15 above left and below; 16.

TopFoto: 4 below/Roger-Viollet; 5 above; 11 below/The Granger Collection; 12 above right; 15 above right.

Index

Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria, Countess of,
154

Aberdeen Weekly Journal
,
190
,
260

Adey, More,
203
,
287
,
293–301
,
327

‘Aestheticism': as movement,
3
,
6–7
,
23–4
,
30–2
,
37
,
52
,
56
; satirized,
40–1;
; and Oscar–Constance wedding,
87
; Oscar embodies,
89
; and marriage,
90
; and dress,
92
,
109–10;
; in Tite Street house,
99–100;
; classical interests,
112
; and Constance's writings,
131

Aguétant, Marie,
79

Ainslie family,
59–61

Ainslie, Douglas,
59–61
,
107
,
118
,
120
,
135
,
151
,
181

Aivazovsky, Ivan,
47–8

Albemarle Club, London,
56
,
102
,
162
,
203
,
254–5

Alexander, George,
8
,
128
,
195
,
245–6
,
254
,
263–4
,
327

Alexandra Club, London,
161

Algeria,
9
,
253
,
256

Alice, Princess of Monaco,
305

Allen, Maud,
327

Althaus, Fred,
180

Anderson, Mary,
66

Ardilaun, Olivia, Lady,
128

Arthur (Wildes' butler),
1
,
12
,
239
,
243
,
246

Arts and Crafts movement,
5

Asquith, Herbert (
later
1st Earl),
179

Atkins, Fred,
217
,
262

Atkinson, Ellen (‘Ella'),
45

Atkinson, Captain John (Constance's maternal grandfather),
13
,
15

Atkinson, Mary (
née
Hemphill; Constance's maternal grandmother),
13
,
15
,
44–5
,
70–1

Avondale Hotel, London,
1
,
4
,
256

Babbacombe Cliff, Torquay: Constance visits,
10–12
,
185–6
,
192
,
206
,
227
,
253
,
274
; Constance rents from Lady Mount-Temple,
213–16;
; Oscar joins Constance at,
214–16;
; Oscar stays at without Constance,
218–20;
; Bosie joins Oscar at,
219–20
,
222
; Lady Mount-Temple declines request from Constance to visit,
251–2

Bad Homburg, Germany,
204–19

Badley.J. H.,
3
,
239

Bairn's Annual, The
,
130–1
,
133–4

Balcombe, Florence (Mrs Bram Stoker),
39
,
79
,
128

Balfour, Arthur James (
later
1st Earl),
179
,
223

Battersea, Cyril Flower, 1st Baron,
223

Bedales School,
3
,
238–9
,
270

Beddington, Mrs Claude,
135

Belt, Richard,
31–2
,
47

Bergson, Mina (
later
Mathers),
171

Bernard-Beere, Fanny Mary,
87

Berneval-sur-Mer (France),
302

Bernhardt, Sarah,
39–40
,
90
,
204

Besant, Annie,
165

Betws-y-Coed, Wales,
34

Billing, Noel Pemberton,
327

Blacker, Carlos,
307
–14,
319

Blacker, Carrie,
307

Blackwood's Magazine
,
179–80

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna,
165–7

‘Bloody Sunday' (1887),
149–50

Böcklin, Arnold,
312

Bogliasco (Italy): Villa Elvira,
308–9
,
311

Bonar, Henry,
230

Bonar, Lilias (Constance's cousin),
218
,
230–2
,
234
,
305

Booth, Edwin,
46

Borderland
(magazine),
176

Bossi, Dr (Italian gynaecologist): treats Constance,
285–6
,
292
,
317
; shot dead,
328

Bothnia
(ship),
66

Bourget, Paul,
90

Bourke, Algernon,
254

Boxwell, Miss (Constance's travelling companion),
280

Braddon, Mary,
129
;
The Rose of Life
,
101
,
320

Bradley, Katherine,
94–5

Brémont, Anna, Comtesse de,
94
,
128
,
171–4

Bright, John,
127

Bristol Mercury and Daily Post
,
97

Britannia
(ship),
69

Brooke, Bertram,
283

Brooke, Margaret, Lady, Ranee of Sarawak: friendship with Constance,
277
,
283–4
,
302
,
309
,
312
; influence on Haldane,
277
; background,
283
; in Italy,
283–4
,
290
,
302
,
305–6;
; photography,
284
,
306
; in Germany with Constance,
291–2;
; and Adela Schuster,
294–5;
; and Constance's death,
317–18

Brookfield, Charles,
263

Brougham, Henry Peter, Baron,
17

Browning, Oscar,
118

Browning, Robert,
52

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward,
3
,
112
,
131
,
186
,
226
,
228
,
262
,
275
,
283
,
323

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady (‘Georgie'),
226
,
228
,
262
,
269
,
275–6

Burne-Jones, Margaret,
269

Burne-Jones, Philip,
269
,
271–2

Burns, John,
149

Cadogan Hotel, London,
266

Café Royal, London,
13

Cairo,
232

Calderon, Philip Hermogenes,
58

Cambridge, Prince George William Frederick Charles, Duke of,
98

Cameron, Henry Herschel Hay,
213
,
323

Campbell, Janey Sevilla,
139

Carfax Gallery,
327

Carson, Edward (
later
Baron),
259

Carte, Richard D'Oyly,
49

Catherine, Sister,
286

Chambers, Haddon:
John-o-Dreams
,
251

Chante, Mrs Ormiston,
155
,
159

Charles Street, Mayfair,
53
,
100

Chelsea Hospital for Women,
99

Christian Social Union,
244

Christian socialism,
185
,
274–5

Chronicle, The
,
307

Churchill, Lord Randolph,
9

Churchill, Sir Winston: sues Bosie,
326

Classics: revival of interest in,
112–13

Clewer (Windsor),
228

Clifton, Arthur,
202
,
206
,
210
,
274
,
277
,
280
,
297–8

Clifton, Marjorie,
210

Cobden, Jane,
154
,
158

Cochrane, (
later
Admiral Sir) Basil and Cornelia (
later
Lady),
83–4
,
192
,
304

Colonel, The
(play),
40

Cons, Emma,
154
,
158

Conway, Alfonso,
262
,
267

Cooper, Edith,
94–5

Cooper-Oakley, Isabel,
164
,
166

Corelli, Marie,
151–2;
;
The Silver Domino
,
152

Corkran, Alice,
130–1

Corkran, Henriette,
130
,
225

Cosy Corner Stories
(serial),
138

Crane, Walter,
3
,
128

Cravan, Arthur
see
Lloyd, Fabian

Cromer
see
Felbrigg Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of,
232

Cunninghame Graham, Miss,
218

Cunninghame Graham, Robert,
107
,
149–50
,
161

Curzon, George Nathaniel (
later
Marquess),
108

Dante Alighieri:
Inferno
,
214
,
217

Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire,
58–61

de Morgan, Evelyn,
30

Deschamps, Eugene,
326

Deschamps, Juliet (Lady Mount-Temple's daughter),
159–60
,
177
,
181
,
185–6
,
269
,
283
,
326

Didaco (Italian actor),
322

Dilke, Mrs Ashton,
149

Dinard (Brittany),
225

Dixon, Eliza,
144

Dodgson, Campbell,
219–20

Donoghue, John,
90

Dorothy's Restaurants, London,
164–5

Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie'): accompanies Oscar to Algeria,
9–10
,
253
,
256
; Oscar meets,
194–5;
; blackmailed,
203
; relations with Oscar,
204
,
211
,
216–17
,
221–3
,
249
; stays with Wildes at Felbrigg, Norfolk,
206–7;
; at Goring-on-Thames,
210
,
224
; at Babbacombe with Oscar,
219–20;
; sent down after failing Oxford exams,
219
,
229–30;
; character and personality,
221
; denies affecting Wildes' marriage,
226
; translation of Oscar's
Salome
,
230
; Oscar refuses to see,
232
; sent to Cairo,
232
; meets Oscar in Paris with Constance's consent,
235–7;
; father threatens,
237–8
,
240
; in Florence,
239
; joins Oscar in Worthing,
247
; satirized in
The Green Carnation
,
249
; in
Punch
cartoon,
250–1;
; supports Oscar's legal action against father,
256–9;
; leaves for Monte Carlo with Oscar,
259–60;
; accompanies Oscar and Constance to theatre,
263–5;
; attempts Oscar's release from remand,
267–9;
; flees to France,
274–5;
; m Genoa,
290
; Oscar turns against,
290
; writes to Oscar after release,
307
; Oscar stays with in Naples,
310
; Constance hates,
314–15;
; disparages Constance,
320
; returns to London society,
323
; as chief mourner at Oscar's funeral,
324
; inheritance on father's death,
326
; marriage and later life,
326
; Robert Ross sues for criminal libel,
327

Douglas of Harwick, Lord Percy (
later
9th Marquess of Queensberry),
256–7

Douglas, Olive (
nee
Custance; Lady Alfred Douglas),
326