and the Queensberry libel trial 547–8
Insull, Samuel 296
Ireland
1848 uprising 10
ancient Celts 7, 16, 24–5
Anglo-Irish Protestants 5, 53
Bray properties 1, 15, 87, 88, 92, 94, 118, 124, 128–9, 135
Catholics 5, 52–3
Church of 6, 52
Clonfeacle 87, 135
Clonfin 84, 94, 117
Famine 8–9
Illaunroe 87, 92–3, 130
OW lecturing in 303
OW’s visits/holidays while at Oxford 74–5, 84, 92–4, 116–18, 129–31
Wilde family holidays in 14–16
Young Ireland movement 9–10
see also Dublin; Moytura; Portora Royal School
Irish Home Rule 358–9, 360, 382
‘Bloody Sunday’ 360, 362, 408
Irish language 24
Irish nationalism 136–7
and OW’s American lecture tour 239–40, 244
Irving, H.B. 340–1
Irving, Henry 71, 96, 131, 137, 141, 159, 162, 177, 182, 287, 385, 412, 453
and OW’s Vera 169
and Ruskin 153
Isaacson, Lieutenant-Colonel H.B. 602, 603, 608
Italian Renaissance, Ruskin’s Oxford lectures on the 65–6, 72
Italy 72–4, 101–3
Capri 655–6
Florence 72, 73–4, 502, 503–4, 666
Genoa 101–2, 103, 695–6
Ravenna 114, 117
Rome 106–9, 702–3
Sicily 668–9
see also Naples
Ives, George 490–1, 495, 519, 526
Jackson, Charles Kains 491, 525
Jackson, Kains 502
Jacob, Arthur 22
Jacomb-Hood, George 364, 369–70
James, Henry 141, 221–3, 246, 357, 374, 405, 443–4
The Turn of the Screw 693
James I, King 19
Guy Domville 532, 533
James, Jesse 249
Jansen, Marie 267
Japan 256–7
Jarry, Alfred 682
Jecks, Clara 241
Jeune, Mrs 342, 351–2, 353, 355
John, Augustus 698
Johnson, Lionel 392, 407, 419, 469, 470, 471
Jones, A.H. 477
The Dancing Girl 458
Jones, Arthur 149
Jones, Arthur Henry 423
Jones, Cholmley 76
Jopling, Mrs 444, 445, 466
Josephus 435
Jowett, Benjamin 64, 65, 83
Julian, Philippe, Oscar Wilde 431
Julius II, Pope 107
Kearley, ex-police inspector 546, 547, 580, 581, 592
Keats, John 45, 46, 47–8, 56, 110, 142, 150, 333, 335, 610
and Chatterton 337
grave 107
and OW’s American lecture tour 207, 217
OW’s sonnet on 113
relics of in America 238
Kelly, James Edward 211–12, 226, 294, 296
Kernahan, Coulson 413, 417, 430, 442, 445, 590
Kingsford, Anna 383
Kipling, Alice 179
Kitchener, Herbert 496
Knapp, John 656
Knight, Joe 242
Kottabos (college literary magazine) 48, 76, 84
Kraemer, Lotten von 13–14, 17, 25, 49, 76
Kropotkin, Prince 619
La Jeunesse, Ernest 690, 691–2, 705–6, 707
la Purée, Bibi 429
La Révolté 433
La Sainte Courtisane (Wilde) 493, 498, 567, 593, 699
La Terrière, Bulmer de Sales 61, 89
Labouchère, Henriette 266, 291
Labouchère, Henry 189, 196, 229, 291, 340, 597
‘Lady Alroy’ (Wilde) 348
Lady Windermere’s Fan (formerly A Good Woman) 423–5, 426, 439–41, 450, 452, 453, 456, 457, 458, 478, 479, 518, 534, 633, 701–2
American rights to 425, 451
in book form 482, 493
British touring rights to 498
and Brookfield’s The Poet and the Puppets 447–8
earnings from 466–7, 473, 499
first night 443–4
and green carnations 442–3, 446
plans for French debut 427–8, 451
revival of 538
Lady’s Pictorial 309, 366
Lady’s World see Woman’s World magazine
Lake District 304
Lamartine, Alphonse 11
Lamb, Charles 372
Lamb, Edward 293
Lane, John 438, 451, 468, 475, 482, 489, 500, 504, 564, 594, 686
Lang, Andrew 334, 388
Langtry, Lillie 110–11, 136, 141–2, 145–6, 147, 148–50, 152, 153, 154, 159, 163, 181, 182, 191, 235, 292, 311, 443, 640
and OW’s Poems 185
and OW’s ‘The New Helen’ 146, 149
theatrical debut 195–6
in the United States 265–6, 291, 303
and Whistler 177, 179
Lankester, Ray 371, 571
Lawrence, George 164
Lawrence, Henry Buxton 74
Lazarus, Emma, ‘The New Colossus’ 211
Le Figaro 437
Le Gallienne, Richard 370–1, 383, 441, 442, 475
Le Gaulois 437
Le Rouge, Gustave 690
Leadville, Colorado, OW lectures in 247–9, 285
Leadville Daily Herald 248
Leblanc, Georgette 676
L’Echo de Paris 433, 437
Leland, Charles G. 141, 164, 214
Lenoir, Helen 193, 194, 199, 246
Leonard, Bibidie 367
Leonardo da Vinci 82, 235
Leopold, Prince 65, 69, 100, 136
Leslie, Mrs Frank 202, 294, 512
marriage to Willie Wilde 425–6, 451
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 209
Leverson, Ada 446, 482, 500, 521, 522, 537, 543, 545, 557, 560
and OW in exile 657, 669, 689, 699
and OW’s release from prison 627, 628, 629
and OW’s trial 565, 567, 579
Leverson, Ernest 543, 579, 580, 582, 619, 621, 622, 659
and OW’s release from prison 627, 628
Leverson, Violet 579
Levy, Amy 353
Levy, Edwin 151, 234, 256, 271, 452
Lewis, George 159, 170, 180, 189, 191, 287, 368, 382, 390, 443, 452, 491, 495
and the blackmail of OW 474
and OW’s American lecture tour 192–3, 194, 218, 220
and OW’s case against Queensberry 541, 542, 560
and OW’s imprisonment 595
and OW’s trial 566, 579
and Queensberry’s campaign against OW 508, 510, 523
Lewis, Mrs 205, 232, 233
Liberals
and Irish Home Rule 358–9, 360, 409
and OW’s trial 559–60
Liddell, Mrs 100
Liebich, Frank 414
Life (society paper) 171
Lincoln, Nebraska, OW visits 249–50
Lindsay, Sir Coutts 110
Linton, Mrs Lynn 674
Lippincott, Craige 396
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 386–8, 417
The Picture of Dorian Gray in 398–403, 417
Littlechild, private investigator 546, 547, 548
Lloyd, Constance see Wilde, Constance (formerly Lloyd)
Lloyd, Horatio 176, 300–1, 306, 312
Lloyd, Otho 130, 175, 287, 288, 299, 300, 368, 467, 593
Lock, George 404
Locke, Charles E. 241, 243, 247
Lockwood, Sir Frank 559–60, 575, 579, 581–2, 583
London
Albemarle Club 539–40
Beaumont Trust Fund 331
Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution 337–8
Charles Street lodgings 191, 286–7, 311
Cleveland Street scandal 389–90, 459–60, 502
Grosvenor Gallery review 109–10, 113–15, 121, 143, 17
7, 277
Hotel Albemarle 440, 442, 476, 491, 533, 562
Hotel Avondale 536, 540
Lyceum Theatre 131, 137–8, 141, 153
OW in St James’s Place 490
OW’s election to St Stephen’s Club 101
OW’s visits to
in childhood 54–5
while at Oxford 91, 96, 109–11
police raid on Fitzroy Street house 518
Royal Academy Schools 288–9
Salisbury Street lodgings 136, 164
Savile Club 357, 400
Savoy Hotel, OW and Douglas at the 473–6
Thirteen Club 497
Tite Street (Keat’s House) 140, 164–5, 182
banishment from 190–1
Tite Street (OW’s marital home) 305–6, 311, 316–20, 321, 375, 440, 496, 566
burglary 426
sale of effects from 567
Wilde family move to 130–1, 135–7
The London Cuckoo 173
‘London Models’ (Wilde) 379
London Standard 445
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 223, 224–5, 268
Hiawatha 14
Lonsdale, Lady 171, 196
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (Wilde) 418
‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ (Wilde) 347–8
Loring, Edward G. 221
Loring, Harriet 222
Lormel, Louis 595
Lorrain, Jean 429, 435, 706
Louis of Battenberg, Prince 149
Louise, Princess 136, 350
Louisville, Kentucky, OW lectures in 237
Louÿs, Pierre 430, 432, 433, 437, 447, 450, 456, 475, 476, 561, 675
and OW’s relationship with Douglas 484, 485
and OW’s trial 565
‘Love is Law’ (Wilde) 640, 689, 696–7, 700, 701, 705, 707, 708–9
Lowell, James Russell 194
Lowther, Aimée 385, 489, 706, 707
Lugné-Poe, Aurélien 605, 630–1, 639
Luini, Bernadino 73
Lysippus 107
Lytton, Emily 428
Lytton, Lord 428
Macaulay, Lord, History of England 8
MacCarthy, Denis Florence 14, 638
New Year Song 638
McCarthy, Justin 137, 359
McDowell, J. 35, 36
McDowell, Robert 35, 37
McIlvaine, Clarence 404–5, 418, 433
Mack, Mrs John 209
Mackaye, Steele 248, 263–4, 265, 266, 267, 286, 295
Mackenzie, Ross 254
Mackmurdo, Arthur 337
Macmillan, George 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 144, 345, 357, 359, 363
Macmillan, Maurice 397
MacPherson, James 4
Maeterlinck, Count Maurice 676
L’Intruse (The Intruder) 436
Princess Maleine 426, 436
Magazine of Art 356
Mahaffy, Professor John Pentland 39–40, 41, 42–3, 46–7, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 64, 85, 88, 110, 128, 331, 359
in Italy 72
OW accompanies on tour of Greece 102–6
and OW’s rustication 112
Rambles and Studies in Greece 92
Social Life in Ancient Greece 55–7, 82
Major, Lilian 175
Mallarmé, Stéphane 178, 416, 428–9, 431–2, 433, 434, 675
Mander, Theodore 304
Manning, Cardinal Henry 80, 91, 92
Manning, Pentonville Prison governor 592
Mansfield, Richard 498, 504
Marbury, Elisabeth 451, 493, 503, 660, 669
Mariller, Harry 152, 332–3, 334, 335–7, 339, 345, 520
Markower, Stanley 657
Martin, Thomas 618, 619, 630, 631, 637
Martin, Violet 352–3, 401
Mathews, Elkin 438, 451, 468, 475, 482
Mathews, Willie 543, 557
Maturin, Charles 13, 618
Melmoth the Wanderer 9, 30, 498
Maturin, Father Basil 214, 217
Maurice, Dr Oliver 603, 607, 609
Mavor, Sydney 462, 463
and OW’s trial 562–3, 568, 569, 573
and Queensberry’s libel trial 546, 547, 548, 553
Maxse, Mrs Cissie 156
Maxse, Violet 156, 505
Maxwell, Willie 394
May, Arthur 96
Meineke, Auguste, Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets 53–4, 55
Meinhold, Wilhelm, Sidonia the Sorceress 11, 29–30
Mellor, Harold 693–4, 695, 702, 704, 706, 707
Melvill, Harry 341, 371
Mendès, Catulle 395, 429, 432
Mercure de France 596, 676
Meredith, George 405, 465–6
Merrill, Stuart 404–5, 429, 430, 431, 432, 447, 565, 604, 682, 691, 706
Merrion Square, Dublin 53, 84, 115–16
and OW at Trinity College Dublin 36, 38, 41, 49–50, 51–2
OW’s childhood home at 12–14, 17–18
sale of 131, 137
and Sir William Wilde’s death 86–7, 88
Miles, Canon 92, 189
Miles, Frank 71–2, 74, 75, 90, 94, 95, 100, 109, 110, 129, 277
holidays in Ireland with OW 92–3
and Lillie Langtry 149, 192
sketch of 111
London house 306
‘An Ocean Wave’ 146
and OW in London 136, 140, 141, 157, 177, 179, 181
banishment from Keats House 190–1
move to Tite Street 164–5
OW visits family home of 91–2
Miles, John C. 248
Millais, Sir John Everett 90, 110, 111, 113, 153, 286
Millard, Christopher 718
Miller, Joaquin 209–10, 211, 228
Mills, Townsend 51, 54
Milner, Alfred 71, 83, 124, 314, 326
Milton, John, Paradise Lost 238
Milwaukee, OW lectures in 238
Mirabeau, Octave 675
Mirbeau, Octave 595
Mitchell, Peters Chalmers 707
Modjeska, Helena 157, 169
Moffett, Rev. Benjamin 35
Molesworth, Mrs 334
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald 361
Mommsen, Theodore, History of Rome 591
Montefiore, Charlotte 157
Montefiore, Leonard 71, 83, 151, 157
Montesquiou, Count Robert de 279, 310, 429
Montgomery, Alfred 508, 524, 555
Month journal 84
Moore, Augustus M. 127
Moore Hall 24
Moore, Kate 275–6
Moore, Tom 14
Moréas, Jean 416, 432, 433, 434, 690
Moreau, Gustave 310
Morrell, Harry 503
Morrell, Mr and Mrs Herbert 125
Morris, Clara 195, 212–13, 251–2
Morris, Jane 185
Morris, William 53, 73, 75, 122, 142, 161, 337, 380, 493
Coach House 362
Commonweal 360, 408
The Earthly Paradise 45
interior decoration 97–8
meeting with OW 180
and OW’s American lecture tour 234
and OW’s Poems 185, 186, 188
Red House 97
Morrison, Lewis 293
Morrison, Rev. W.D., prison chaplain 593, 598, 599
Morse, Colonel W.F.
and OW’s American lecture tour 193, 199–200, 201–6, 207, 208, 211, 219–20, 226, 228, 233, 239, 241, 249, 256, 257–8, 259
and OW’s British lecture tour 289, 291–2
Moulton, Louise Chandler 404
Mount Temple, Lady 426, 458, 467, 468, 470, 533
Moytura 53, 84, 369, 694
childhood holidays at 16, 24–5, 35, 43
OW’s holidays while at Oxford 74–5, 92
and Sir William Wilde’s death 87
Mrs Arbuthnot see A Woman of No Importance (formerly Mrs Arbuthnot (Wilde)
Muir, Joseph 118
Müller, Friedrich Max 64–5
Müller, K.O. 56
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Munro, George 218
Munthe, Axel 656
Murray, George Gilbert 106
The Musician 654, 660
Musset, Alfred de 278
Mycenae 104
Napier, Eliza 545
Napier, Mary 469
Naples
Museo Nazionale 657–8, 666
OW’s exile in 665–70, 686
with Douglas 647, 648, 649–64
OW’s sexual adventures in 658–9
Posillipo villa 653–64
The Nation newspaper 9–10, 11
National Art Exhibition 358
National Association 17
National Observer 564
National Review 28
National Vigilance Society 403
Nelson, Major James O. 608, 609–10, 623, 624, 630, 669, 674, 697
Nethersole, Louis 700, 708–9
Nethersole, Olga 700
Nettleship, Adeline 305
Neville-Rolfe, Eustace 655
New Review 409, 654
New York
Lambs Club 264
and OW’s lecture tour 199–213, 230–1, 253, 254, 256, 267
theatrical schemes 262–8
premiere of Vera in 292–6
theatres 264
New York Herald 412
on OW’s American lectures 209, 213, 227
on Vera 294
New York Journal 669
New York Mirror 295
New York Times 187, 295, 678
review of the ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ 401–2
New York Tribune 412
on OW’s American lectures 204, 205, 209, 227, 235, 268
on Vera 294
New York World 293
Newbolt, Henry 188
Newcastle, Duke of 344, 366, 404, 420, 495, 684
Newdigate Prize for poetry 116–17, 127–8, 129, 155, 170, 318
Newman, Cardinal Henry 15, 85, 92
Apologia 591, 597
Newport, Rhode Island, OW lectures at 258, 259
Nicholson, John Gambril, Love in Earnest 519
Nicholson, William 640
Nicolson, Dr 608
Nielson, Julia 527
‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ (Wilde) 348, 365
Niles, Thomas 364
Nilsson, Christina 163
Nineteenth Century 113, 143, 351, 373, 379, 380, 397
Nittis, Giuseppe de 276, 284
OW’s essay on ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’ 329–30
Noble, Rev. William 25
Nogent-sur-Marne 683, 687–8
Norfolk, OW and Constance Wilde in Felbrigg 456, 458–9
Norton, Charles Eliot 223
Norton, Eliot 223–4
Nutt, David 363
O’Brien, Kevin, Oscar Wilde in Canada 234
O’Brien, Smith 17
O’Brien, William 359
O’Connell, Daniel 75
O’Connor, T.P. 362
Olivecrona, Rosalie 22
Olympia 104
Orde, Charlie 145
O’Reilly, John Boyle 223, 244, 262
Ormond, G.H. 118
Osborne, Bernal 181–2
Osgood, J.R. 405, 418, 433
O’Shea, Kitty 409
the ‘Osquiths’ 420–1
Oscar Page 120
