Oscar
Page 119
Crocker, Amy 245
Crocker, Charles 246
Crocker, Edwin B. 246
Crocker, Hattie 246–7
Croly, Mrs D.G. 204
Cromer, Lord 492
Cruttenden, Arthur 633, 645
Cuffe, Hamilton 559
Cunliffe, Arthur 483
Cunninghame-Graham, Robert 360, 362, 577–8, 674
Currie, Lord 504
Curzon, George 236, 292, 331, 420, 421–2, 428, 445
Curzon, Henry 379
Cust, Harry 420, 421
Daily Chronicle 382, 400, 401, 402, 599, 618, 674
OW’s article to on prison life 630, 637
OW’s letter on prison reform 675
Daily News 192
Daily Report 243
Daily Telegraph 328, 412, 441, 674
Dalby, William 488
Dall, Caroline Healy 221
Daly, Augustin 425, 665, 689, 696–7
Danann Celts 16, 24–5
Dansey, Claude 491
Dante Alighieri 9, 72, 249
Divine Comedy 224
Daphnis and Chloe libretto 648, 652, 653, 665
Darly-Smith, Mary Rebecca 214
Daudet, Alphonse 277, 604
Davidson, John 409, 439
Plays 500
Davis, Jefferson 255
Davis, Robert 217, 234
Davis, Robert S. 214
Davis, Thomas 9, 14, 244
Davray, Henry 634, 676, 679
Day, F. Holland 260–1
De Profundis (OW’s prison letter) 615–18, 624, 629, 718, 719
De Quincey, Thomas, ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ 372
De Vere, Aubrey 85
‘The Decay of Lying’ (Wilde) 373–5, 379, 380, 381, 382, 391, 395, 397, 425
Degas, Edgar 178, 276
Delaroche, Paul 323, 324
Delsarte, François 266
Desart, Lady 90
Descaves, Lucien 604
‘The Devoted Friend’ (Wilde) 348, 364–5
The Dial 388–9, 392, 406
‘Dialogue’ (Wilde) 397–8
Dickens, Charles 15, 29, 210, 227, 334, 718
The Old Curiosity Shop 579
Dickinson, John Ehret 340, 341
Dieppe
OW and Douglas in 520
OW in exile in 628–31, 632, 641–2, 643–4
Dilke, Charles 359
Dinard, OW in 488–9
Disraeli, Benjamin 29, 88
Vivian Grey 394
Dodge, Abigail 221
Dodgson, Campbell 469–70, 471, 472
Donnay, Maurice 604, 701
Donne, John 188
Donoghue, John 236–7, 308, 317–18
Dorset, OW holidays in 369–70
Douglas, Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ 462
in Algeria 534–6, 537, 538
at Babbacombe Cliff with OW 469–71
at Goring with OW 486–8
at Worthing with OW 516–17, 518
and the Ballad of Reading Gaol 661
blackmail of (Oxford incident) 452–3, 510
in Brighton with OW 522–3
character 452, 472
death of father 701
in Egypt 492, 494–5, 495–6, 505
return from 500–1
fails to take degree 486
family relations 465
feelings for OW 452–3
in Felbrigg with the Wildes 458–9
and friends of OW 504
and George Ives 490, 491
and Hitchins’ The Green Carnation 520–1
letters to Schwabe 453, 459–60
Oscar Wilde and Myself 719
and OW at the Savoy Hotel 473–6
and OW’s death 714, 715
and OW’s deed of separation from Constance 622
and OW’s exile 699
failure to help financially 705
letters from 635–6
meeting at Rouen 646–8
in Naples 647, 648, 649–64, 667
in Paris 682–4
return to England 689
OW’s first meeting with 419–20
and OW’s imprisonment 592, 594, 595, 596–7, 613
letter to (De Profundis) 615–18, 624, 629, 719
OW’s ‘madness of kisses’ letter to 473–4, 479–81, 550, 552
OW’s relations with 453, 464–5, 467, 472–3, 475–7, 484–5, 492, 500–1
and OW’s trial 561, 563, 565–6, 567, 569, 571, 572–3, 573, 577, 579, 582–3
poems 544, 570, 636, 653–4, 689
and Queensberry (his father)
feud with 501–2, 507–11
libel trial 540, 542, 543–4, 545, 547–8, 550–2, 557, 558
in Scotland 707
sexual activities with OW and others 464, 469
and The Spirit Lamp 467, 471, 472, 479, 483, 525
translation of Salomé 488, 489–90
‘The Two Loves’ (sonnet) 526
in Worthing with OW 516–17, 520, 522
Douglas, Norman 655
Douglas, Percy 511, 525, 536, 538, 542, 543, 544, 557, 558, 560, 576, 581, 600, 701
financial assistance to OW from 620, 639
Dowson, Ernest 407, 415, 578, 642, 669
death 700–1
and OW’s exile
in France 632, 633, 634, 641, 643, 644, 648
in Naples 652, 658, 659
Dramatic Review 330, 332
dress reform 212
Drexel, A.J. 267
Dreyfus affair 676–9, 684
Drumlanrig, Lord 495, 511, 555
death of 523–5, 556
Du Maurier, Gerald, cartoons in Punch 160–2, 171, 173
Dublin
Catholic University Literary Society 112
National Gallery of Ireland 45
newspapers/magazines
Dublin Medical Press 22
Dublin University Magazine 76, 84, 87–8, 113–15
Illustrated Monitor 112
Irish Daily News 143
Irish Monthly 127
see also Merrion Square, Dublin; Trinity College Dublin
The Duchess of Padua (Wilde) 263–5, 267, 272–4, 283–4, 286, 292, 301, 305, 311, 312–13, 386, 387, 405, 447, 458, 482
US production of 411–13, 498
Duff Gordon, Lady 30
Duffy, Gavan 9, 10
Duffy, Gavin 244
Dumas, Alexandre 11, 424
La Dame de Monsoreau 702
Dunbar, Frederick 254
Duncan, Florence 217
Dunne, Fr Cuthbert 713, 714
Dunton, Watts 181
Duret, Théodore 276
Duse, Eleonora 666
Earl, J.R. 365
The Echo de Paris 563, 576, 595
Edison, Thomas 295–6
Edward, Prince of Wales 141, 142, 149, 159, 181–2, 196, 200, 205, 479, 495, 536, 668, 693
Eighty Club 358–9, 559–60, 575, 590
Elcho, Lady 420, 445
Elden, Matthew 177
Elgee, Jane Francesca see Wilde, Jane Francesca (formerly Elgee, OW’s mother)
Elgee, Judge John K. 255
Eliot, Arthur 700
Eliot, George 141, 352, 431
Elton, Oliver 188
Elvin, Harry 612, 659
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 223, 296, 512
Encombe, Lord 453
English Illustrated Magazine 345–6, 348, 379
Enniskerry, O.W’s second baptism at 15–16
Ephemeral periodical 483–4, 486
Epstein, Jacob 718
Era (theatrical paper) 168, 171, 444
Erman, Adolf, Life in Ancient Egypt 639
Esterhazy, Major Ferdinand 676–7, 677–8, 679, 684, 689
Euripides 104, 144
Hecuba 85
Euston, Earl of 389–90
the Examiner 243
Fabian Society 351, 362
Fact 166
Fane, Lady Augusta 159
Fane, Violet (Mrs Singleton) 141, 144, 185, 316, 332, 351, 451
Faucit, Helena 8
Fawcett, Edgar 482
Fénéon, Félix 415, 676
Ficino, Marsilio 388
Field, Kate 212, 213
‘Field, Michael’ 404, 451, 474, 674
Firbolg Celts 16, 24
Fish, Arthur 355, 366
‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ 387–8, 393
Fitch, Clyde 383, 384
FitzGerald (Oxford friend) 70, 77
Fitzpatrick, W.J. 50
Flaubert, Gustave 328, 366, 381, 392, 433
Madame Bovary 633
Temptation of St Antony 310, 666
Trois Contes 119, 434
Fletcher, John 273
Fletcher, Julia Constance 114, 127–8, 143, 157, 351
Mirage 108–9
Florence 72, 73–4, 502, 503–4, 666
The Florentine Tragedy (Wilde) 534, 567, 593, 640, 646
Flower, Cyril 456, 459
Flower, Mrs 459
flowers, OW’s love of 122, 161–2
Forbes, Archibald 192, 218–20, 322
Forbes-Robinson, Eric 288
Forbes-Robinson, Frances 442
Forbes-Robinson, Francesca (Frankie) 157, 617
Forbes-Robinson, Johnston 138, 142, 143, 146
Forbes-Robinson, Norman 138, 165, 288, 330, 403
and OW’s American lecture tour 210, 211, 242, 249
and OW’s Vera 169
Ford, Ford Madox 45, 180
Ford, Robert 249
Forman, Buxton 113
Fort, Paul 432
Fort, Paul 436, 437
Fortescue, Mrs Marion T. 209–10
Fortnightly Review 143, 329, 351, 355, 373, 379, 380, 382, 409, 411, 414, 510
Fothergill, John 642–3, 646, 687
Fox, Fr Lawrence Prideaux 15, 16, 52
Fox, Selina ‘Teenie’ 117
France
Chantemesle 684–5
École Romane ٤٣٢, ٤٣٤
OW in Dinard 488–9
OW in exile in
Dieppe and Berneval-sur-Mer 628–48, 687–8
the French Riviera 692–4
Nogent-sur-Marne 646, 683, 687
OW’s holidays in 170
reaction to OW’s imprisonment 595, 604
see also Paris
Francis of Assisi, St 634
Frank, Harris, and An Ideal Husband 695
Frederic, Harold 362
Freeman’s Journal 209
Freemasonry 69–70, 78, 79, 84, 95
Friend, Rev. M.T. 616
Frith, W.P. 174, 590
Frohman, Charles 451
Frohman, Daniel 503
Fry, Roger 411, 719
Gainsborough, Thomas 304, 305
Galbraith, E. 35, 36
Gale, Minna 412
Gardner, Isabella Stewart 222, 224
Gautier, Théophile 81, 178, 250, 258, 280, 372, 374
Gebhard, Freddie 266, 294
Genoa 101–2, 695–6
Germany, OW in 386, 456–7
Gide, André 430, 433–4, 472, 504
in Algeria 534–6
and OW’s exile in France 633–4, 691
Gilbert, John 54
Gilbert, Maurice 680, 683, 706, 712, 715
Gilbert, W.S. 189
Pygmalion and Galatea 213
and Sullivan, Arthur 192
Iolanthe 267
Patience 167, 171–3, 179, 193, 194, 208, 209, 243
Gill, Charles 561–2, 568–9, 570, 572, 579
Gill, Henry 386
Giotto 65, 72–3
Gladstone, William 110, 113, 141, 185, 362, 365, 495, 509, 559, 571
and Irish Home Rule 358, 360
Glasgow, OW lectures in 315–16
Gloeden, Count Wilhelm von 668
Glyn-y-Garth 438
Godwin, E.W. 140, 161, 164, 179, 306, 311, 313, 318, 330, 346, 353
Goethe, Johann von 9, 55, 206, 207
Gómez Carrillo, Enrique 431, 433, 435, 437
Goncourt, Edmond de 276, 280, 284, 437, 484–5, 565, 639, 675
A Good Woman see Lady Windermere’s Fan (formerly A Good Woman)
Goring, OW and Douglas at The Cottage 486–8, 495, 515
Gosse, Edmund 141, 181, 211, 327, 357–8, 379, 674
Goulding, William 72, 101, 102, 104–5
Gourmont, Rémy de 435
Gover, Dr R.M. 598, 599
Gower, Lord Ronald 90, 94, 95, 96, 100, 109, 110, 111, 113, 150
in London 136
Graham, William 159
Grain, Corny 159
Grain, J.P. 562
Grainger, Walter 484, 486, 487, 546, 547, 554, 614
Grant, Hamilton 483–4
Grant, Ulysses S. 259
Graves, Dr 6
Gray, Frank 254, 256
Gray, John 406–7, 409, 411, 414, 415, 416, 439, 441, 446
break with Wilde 474–5
poems 451–2
Silverpoints 482
Greece
ancient Greeks and Irish Celts 6–7, 24–5
Athens 105–6, 144, 152
OW’s tour of with Professor Mahaffy 102–6
pederasty in ancient Greece 56–7, 82–3, 336
see also classical scholarship
Green, T.H. 64, 65, 153
Greene, Graham 669
Grein, J.T. 405–6
Grenfell, Ettie 420–3, 445, 458, 563
Grenfell, William 69, 420, 563
Greswell, Gussie 156
Grey, Lady de 465, 495
Grey, Robin 654, 660
Griffiths, Philip 315
Gross, Dr Samuel 214, 215
Grossmith, George 172, 179, 487
Grove, Archibald 409
Guinness, Arthur Edward 130
Guinness, Lady Olive 130, 137
Guiteau, Charles 219
Gull, Ranger 718
Gurney, Gerald 415
Haggard, H. Rider 357, 456
Haldane, Robert 590–2, 593, 598, 604, 637
Halsbury, Lord 546
Hamilton, Eugene Lee 503
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan 3, 4–5
Hansell, Arthur D. 614, 622, 662
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Wilde) 363–5, 369, 385, 404
‘The Happy Prince’ (Wilde) 334, 345–6, 361
Harding, Amy 89
Harding, James ‘Puss’ 79
Harding, Reginald ‘Kitten’ 79, 89, 93, 95, 98, 100, 115, 122, 145, 153
Hardinge, William Money 83, 327
Hardy, Rev. E.J., How To Be Happy Though Married 327
Hardy, Thomas 405
Hare, Augustus 287
Hare, John 469, 486, 490, 495, 503
Hargrove, Mr 597, 614, 622
Harland, Henry 500
Harper, May 121–2, 125, 161
Harris, Frank 355, 373, 384, 395, 409, 414, 418, 423, 442, 443, 446, 453, 475–6
on Beardsley 499
biography of OW 719
on Hitchins’ The Green Carnation 522
and ‘Love is Law’ 705, 707, 708–9
and OW in exile 632, 662, 680, 682, 684, 688, 698, 710
final illness 711
holiday in the French Riviera 692–4
and OW’s death 714, 715
and OW’s imprisonment 599, 606–7, 619, 620, 621
and OW’s release from prison 623, 629
and OW’s trial 563, 578, 579
and Queenberry’s libel trial 544–5, 547
and Queensberry’s campaign against OW 510, 511
Harry, Gérard 426
Hatchard’s bookshop 516
Hawthorne, Julian 138–40
Hawtrey, Charles 448, 526, 527, 533–4
Hayes, Mrs Augustus 204
Headlam, Rev. Stuart 576, 577, 581, 603, 623, 628
Healy, Chris 677, 678, 687
Healy, T.M. 575
Heinemann, William 426
Hemp
hill, Stanhope 299
Henderson, William 259
Henley, W.E. 355–7, 366, 384, 400, 497, 564, 641, 654
Book of Verse 357
In Hospital 674
and OW’s trial 578
Henry, Lieutenant-Colonel 677–8, 684
Heraclitus 114–15
Heredia, José-Maria de 431–2
Herodotus 144
Heron-Allen, Edward 319–20, 330, 451
Herrmann, Paul 660
Hichens, Robert 505
The Green Carnation 520–2
Hick-Beaches 154
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 228
Higgs, Sally 164–5, 190–1
Hind, C. Lewis 357
Hirschfeld, Dr Gustav 104
Hoffman, Judge 245
Holcombe, Dr 211
Holland, Merlin 644
Holland, Otho (formerly Lloyd) 596, 605, 634
Holloway Prison, OW on remand in 564–6, 574–7
Holmes, Charles 391
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 223, 224
Homer 55–6, 93, 103, 104
Odyssey 91
homosexuality, criminalization of 339–40
Hood, Thomas, Dream of Eugene Aram 638
Hope, Adrian 318, 614, 681, 714
Hope, Lord Francis 420, 435
Horne, Herbert 337
Houghton, Lord 110, 113, 141, 180, 194, 210, 359
The House of Pomegranates 423, 432–3
houses
interior decoration
Aesthetic ideas on 97–100, 121, 145
‘The Decoration of Houses’ (lecture by OW) 239
Housman, A.E., A Shropshire Lad 638
Housman, Laurence 638, 674, 698–9
Howgate, William 315
Howson, John 243
Hughes, Agnes 159
Hughes, Arthur 158
Hugo, Victor 48, 277, 278, 284, 432
The Humanitarian 525
Humphreys, Arthur 516, 526, 543
Humphreys, Charles 508–9, 511, 538, 592, 614
and OW’s trial 562, 580
and Queenberry’s libel trial 540, 541, 543, 544
Humphreys, C.O., Son and Kershaw 508–9
Humphreys, Travers 543
Hunt, Alfred 158
Hunt, Henry Holman 110
Hunt, Mrs Alfred 327
Hunt, Violet 158, 175, 180, 230
Hunter-Blair, David ‘Dunskie’ 79–80, 95, 101, 115, 118, 125, 127, 315
in Rome 106, 108
Hurlbert, William Henry 209, 259
Hutchinson, Charles Edward 99
Huxley, T.H. 130
Huysmans, J.-K., À Rebours 310–11, 336, 374, 395, 399–400, 429, 434, 437, 551
Ibsen, Henrik
Ghosts 405
Hedda Gabler 425
An Ideal Husband (Wilde) 490, 497–8, 503, 512, 526–7, 566, 619, 686, 695
American performing rights 503
first night 531–3
publication of 697
Illustrated London News 173
Image, Selwyn 337
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) 513–15, 518, 519–20, 526, 533–4, 566, 632, 640, 701–2
American rights 518
book edition of 686–7, 689, 694, 695
British performing rights 689
opening night 536–7