Oscar
Page 122
Sickert, Helena (Nellie) 151, 249, 368–9
Sickert, Oswald 140
Sickert, Walter 140–1, 256–7, 276, 644
Sidney, Philip 188
Simmonds, Gertrude 487, 496
Slee, Miss 151
Smith, William, Smaller History of Greece 34
Smithers, Leonard 641–2, 643, 645, 648, 650, 652, 654, 659, 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 668, 669, 673, 675, 680, 681–2, 682, 686–7, 689, 696, 697, 706, 709
Smyth, Ethel 94
Snow, Mrs 656
Society of Authors 357
Socrates 56
Solomon, Simeon 45, 115
Somerset, Lord Arthur 390, 471, 502
Somerville, Edith 352–3
‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ (Wilde) 410–11, 414, 430, 433, 657
the Souls 420–1
Southey, Robert 304
the Speaker 433, 478–9
The Spectator 113, 353, 364
Speed, Mrs Emma 238
Spencer, Countess 505
The Spirit Lamp magazine 467, 471, 472, 479, 483
Spottiswood, Mrs 154
Spottiswood, Professor 136
Stannard, Mrs 632, 643–4
Stead, W.T. 326, 597
Stedman, Edmund Clarence 211
Steele, Frederick 25, 35
Steele, Rev. William (Dr Steele) 19, 20–1, 26, 35, 36
Stephenson, B.C. 319
Stevens, Mrs Paran 204
Stevenson, Robert Louis 29, 405
The Black Arrow 374
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 398
Treasure Island 356, 517
Stewart, Mrs Duncan 287
Stockton, Frank 334
Stoddart, J.M. 214, 215, 217, 250, 386–8, 394
Stoker, Bram 47, 131, 137
Stokes, Dr William 18, 53
Stoner, Monsignor Edmund 106
Stopes, Charlotte 367
Stopford, Albert 668
Story, Waldo 177
Strangman, Edward 633
Strauss, Richard, Salome 717–18
Strong, Belle 245–6
Strong, Joseph Dwight 245, 683
Strong, Rowland 677, 678, 684, 689
Stuart-Wortley, Charles 71
Stuart-Wortley, Mary 143
Sturges, Jonathan 404–5
Sullivan, Arthur see Gilbert, W.S.
Sullivan, Edward 32, 35, 49, 50, 72, 96
Sunday Special 673–4
Sunday Times 444
and OW’s death 715
Sussalich, Vera 168
Sutro, Adolph 245
Swedenborg, Emanuel 11
Swift, Jonathan 8
Swinburne, Algernon 43–4, 46, 47, 53, 55, 75, 82, 91, 113, 142, 143, 158, 161, 172, 188, 380
Atalanta in Calydon 43–4, 47
as a critic 329
Essays and Studies 120
meeting with OW 180–1
and OW’s ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’ 372, 373
and OW’s Poems 185, 186
Poems and Ballads 43, 44, 47
Poems before Sunrise 44
Rosamund 47
and Whitman 216
Swinburne-King, Mrs 300
Switzerland 694, 695, 704
Sykes, Christopher 181
Symonds, John Addington 54, 88, 109, 216, 253, 327, 371, 379, 471
‘Chimaera’ 336
Marius the Epicurean 401
and Ouida 352
and OW’s Poems 185
on the ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ 401
A Problem of Greek Ethics 342
Studies of the Greek Poets 46–7, 82–3, 99
Studies in the Greek Poets (Second Series) 92, 93
Symons, Arthur 406, 642, 674
Tabor, Horace 247
Tailhade, Laurent de 595
Taplow Court house party 420–1
Tavernier, Jules 245
Taylor, Alfred 460, 462, 464, 473, 518, 547, 548, 553, 555, 588
trial of 561–2, 563, 566, 567–74, 576, 579, 580, 581
sentencing 583–4
Taylor, Tom 136, 158–9, 196
Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander 405–6, 578, 710
Tennant, Dolly 153
Tennant, Dorothy 274
Tennant, Margot (later Asquith) 420, 423, 505
Tennant, Mrs 136, 153
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 9, 30, 48, 55, 337, 380
In Memorium 505
The Promise of May 465, 538
‘The Lady Clare’ 14
Terry, Ellen 137, 140, 147, 148, 158, 200, 365, 385, 578, 706
and OW’s Poems 185, 187
and OW’s Vera 169
and Whistler 177
Thackeray, William 29, 334
Thaulow, Frits 632
The Theatre magazine 137, 153
Theocritus 46
Theosophists 383–4
Thirteen Club 497
Thomas, Mathilde 150, 151
Thomas, Maud 94
Thorpe, Courtenay 305
Thursfield, J.R. 77
Tilton, Theodore 266
Time literary magazine 143, 146
Trinity College Dublin, Willie Wilde at 31, 36, 37, 38
Tisdall, Dr 50
Titian 437
‘Assumption of the Virgin’ 73
Todd, Charles 99
Todhunter, John 48
The Torch 590
Toronto, OW in 254
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 691, 697
Townsend, F.H. 347
Toynbee, Arnold 71, 83
Tracy, Peter 254
Travers, Mary 21–3
Trench, Richard 84, 116
Trevelyan, Florence 668
Trinity College Dublin 31, 32, 36, 37–53
and the Mary Travers case 22–3
OW at
academic achievements 50, 53–4
entrance examination 37, 38
foundation scholarship 50
relations with other students 48–9, 51–2
rooms in college 50–1, 52
tutors/mentors 39–43
‘sport at 42–3
‘the Phil’ (Philosophical Debating Society) 42, 47, 49
Willie Wilde at 31, 36, 37, 38, 41, 47, 51
Troubridge, Laura 156, 287, 318, 330
Troubridge, Violet 99
‘The True Knowledge’ 78
Truth (journal) 165, 189, 196, 229, 291, 391, 597
Tucker, Dr Maurice a’Court 707–8, 710, 711, 712–13
Turner, Joseph 65, 177
Turner, Reggie 481, 505, 523, 546, 547, 557
and OW’s death 713, 714, 715
and OW’s exile
final illness 710, 712, 713
in France 640, 642, 645, 646, 647, 647–8, 680, 683, 689, 693
in Naples 650–1, 654, 665
and OW’s imprisonment 592, 612, 613, 620, 621
and OW’s release from prison 628–31
and OW’s trial 567, 570–1
Tyrrell, Professor Robert Yelverton 39, 40–1, 42, 43, 48, 53, 54, 64, 88
Tyrwitt, Thomas 381
United States
OW’s lecture tour 192–4, 196, 199–261
African-Americans and racial animosities 255–6
and American ‘Indians’ 240–1
anecdotes about 284–5
Baltimore 209, 219–20, 223
‘The Beautiful’ 193
Boston 209, 223–6
California 241, 243–7
Chicago 209, 235–6, 237, 238, 239
Colorado 247–9
‘The Decoration of Houses’ 239
‘Decorative Arts’ 234–5, 236, 239, 251
earnings and expenses 233–4, 241, 256, 267
‘The English Renaissance’ 205–9, 217–18, 230, 234, 250
informal summer lectures 257–60
interviews by journalists 200–1
‘Irish Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century’ 244
Minneapolis and St Paul 239–40
New York 199–213, 230–1, 254, 256
Niagara Falls visit 255
OW’s black valet 214, 234
OW’s dress 194, 203, 206, 222, 225–6, 233–4, 258
Philadelphia 209, 213, 214–18, 253–4, 267
press coverage of 204, 205, 209, 227–9
props 226–7
reading of a ‘Lyric Poem’ 193
St Louis 237–8, 239–40
and sales promotions 231
San Francisco 241, 242, 243–7
Sarony photographs 202–3, 211, 230, 231, 233
on Shakespeare’s poetical methods 193
the southern states 254–6
train journeys 218, 242–3
Washington 218–23
and OW’s Poems 184, 185, 187, 212
and OW’s theatrical projects 262–8
production of Guido Ferranti (The Duchess of Padua) 411–13
props 226
reviews of the ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ 401–2
and Vera
premiere 292–6, 297
production plans 212–13, 251–2, 262–3, 265, 274
Utah, OW lectures in 241, 242–3
Utica (New York state), OW’s lecture (‘Decorative Arts’) 234–5
Vacaresco, Hélène 712
Vale, J. Sydney 234
Valéry, Paul 675
Vanbrugh, Irene 537
Vanity Fair 143, 229, 304–5, 312
Vera; or The Nihilists (Wilde) 167–70, 174, 191–2, 194–5, 272, 273, 284, 301, 386
Constance Lloyd (Wilde)’s verdict on 298–9
Milan production 657
plans for American production of 212–13, 251–2, 262–3, 265, 274
premiere in America 292–6, 297, 298
Verlaine, Paul 280, 392, 432, 433, 485, 495, 619, 675
Vezin, Hermann 143, 169, 290, 330, 448
Vian, Alsager 346
Victoria, Queen 171, 182, 224, 354, 369, 495, 555, 597
Diamond Jubilee 640–1
Villon, François 429
Vivian, Herbert, Reminiscences of a Short Life 390–1
Vizetelly, Henry 403
Volkmar, Charles 261
Wagner, Richard 109, 310
Waifs and Strays poetry magazine 145
Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths 69, 372–3
Wainwright, Henry 69
Walkley, A.B. 478–9
Waller, Florence 527
Waller, Lewis 498, 503
Wandsworth Prison 592–600
conditions in 593, 603
OW’s health in 593, 598–600
transfer to Reading Prison 600, 601
visitors for OW 594–5, 596, 598, 599
Ward, Florence 89
Ward, Genevieve 169–70
Ward, Gertrude 89
Ward Howe, Julia 228, 255, 258, 259, 350
‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ 224
Ward Howe, Maud 258
Ward, Lock & Co. 397, 403, 404, 413, 417
Ward, Mrs Humphrey 350
Ward, Sam 209, 220–1, 224, 259, 266
Ward, William ‘Bouncer’ 78–9, 89, 90, 95, 98, 101, 115, 118, 135, 185, 315
in Rome 106–7, 108
Warren, Emily Thomasine 28
Warren, Herbert 129
Washington, OW’s lecture in 218–23
Washington Post 228
the Wasp (US satirical paper) 243–4
Watson & Pim 118, 128–9
Watts, G.F. 143, 165
Watts, Theodore 349, 466
Weeden, Ethel 502
Wendell Holmes, Oliver 258
West, Benjamin 323, 324
Westminster, Constance, Duchess of 100, 152–3
Where’s the Cat? (farce), caricature of OW in 171, 173
Whibley, Charles 400–1, 402, 403, 578
Whistler, James McNeil 46, 52, 101, 110, 143, 144, 250, 256
and Aestheticism 161, 162
Arrangement in the Grey and Black (The Artist’s Mother) 276
‘Nocturne in Black and Gold’ 114
OW meets in Paris 682
and OW’s American lecture tour 196, 248
in OW’s ‘The Decay of Living’ 374
and OW’s marriage 303, 305–6
OW’s relations with 177–9, 229–30, 321–5, 397
and OW’s trial 580
public criticisms of OW 358, 428–9
‘Symphony in White’ 177
‘Ten O’clock’ Lecture 322–5
Tite Street house 140, 147, 164, 305, 388
Venice etchings 271
White, Harry 421–2
Whitehall Review 165
Whitman, Walt 30, 46, 91, 215–17, 253, 268
Wilde, Constance (formerly Lloyd) 175–6, 287–8, 298–303
adopts family name of ‘Holland’ 595
artistic interests 288
at Babbacombe 467, 468–71, 533, 536, 537, 566, 579
at Goring 486–7
birth of sons 330, 338–9
death 681
decoration of Tite Street house 316–19
and dress reform 362
dresses 306–7, 309–10, 311–12
engagement to OW 299–303
family and social life 342–3
friendships with OW’s young men 342
honeymoon 308–11, 385
and Hubert Parry 422–3
ill-health 383, 644
in Italy 472–3
jealousy 367
and La Sainte Courtisane 498
legacy 446
letters to OW 300, 302
and Mariller 335
marriage settlement 301, 312, 349, 593, 594, 597
OW’s allowance from 605, 614, 621–2, 648, 662, 680–1
and Oscariana 516, 526
and OW at the Hotel Albermarle 476
and OW at Worthing 515–17, 520
and OW in Felbrigg, Norfolk 258–9, 456
and OW in Germany 456
and OW’s exile
in France 634–5, 644, 646, 648, 677, 680–1
in Naples 650–1, 651–2
and OW’s homosexual relations 540
and OW’s imprisonment 593, 594, 594–6, 597, 598, 604, 605, 614
and OW’s relationship with Douglas 501, 651–2
and OW’s The House of Pomegranates 432
and OW’s trial 561, 566, 577, 579
palm reading 320
and the ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ 304
political interests 362, 383
pregnancies 316, 338–9
and Queensberry accused of criminal libel 542, 545, 547–8
and relationship with Douglas 492–3
and spiritualism 383–4
There Was Once 363
wedding 303–5
on Willie Wilde’s marriage 426
Wilde, Cyril 330–1, 390, 416, 458, 470, 486–7, 487, 517, 520, 561, 596, 605
Wilde, Dorothy Irene 582
Wilde, Isola Francesca Emily (OW’s sister) 13, 14
death 25–6, 49
Wilde, Jane Francesca (formerly Elgee, OW’s mother) 3, 4–5, 8–12, 93
appearance 5
‘The Brothers’ 9–10, 14, 638
and the Catholic Church 15–16
and Constance Lloyd 287–8
death 604–5
death of husband 86, 87–8
financial difficulties 94–5, 257, 512
and Isola’s death 25, 49
known as ‘Speranza’ 4, 9
as ‘Lady Wilde’ 18
and Lady Windermere’s Fan 440, 445
letters from OW to 27–8
in London 137, 151, 369
‘at homes’/receptions 153, 360
awarded civil list pension 369
books and articles written by 359, 369
Oakley Street house 505, 577–9, 581
visits with OW and brother 54–5
marriage 11
and the Mary Travers case 22, 23
and Mer
rion Square, Dublin 115
and motherhood 12, 13, 14
and OW at Oxford 112
and OW’s American lecture tour 216, 218, 229, 230, 239, 240, 244, 256, 258, 262
on OW’s articles and short stories 347, 379, 380
and OW’s marriage 299–300, 307, 312
and OW’s trial 566, 577, 581, 582
and OW’s works 84–5, 187, 398, 413
in Paris with OW and brother 26–7
Poems by Speranza 24
political writings 8–10
reading to her children 14
reviews and translations 11, 15
and Ruskin 68
‘To Ireland’ 28
and Willie Wilde 76, 426
and Woman’s World 353–4, 360
Wilde, Lily (formerly Lily Lees) 505, 577, 582, 599, 619, 710
Wilde, Oscar
on absinthe intoxication 687–8
appearance 29, 32, 287, 311–12
on American lecture tour 200, 203, 209–10, 211–12, 266–7
at Oxford 62, 67, 79, 120, 121, 125–6
in Belgium 150
during trial 564–5, 568, 581
hairstyles 275, 278, 290, 292
and imprisonment 601, 606, 618
in London 138–9, 146, 164, 174
on release from prison 629
sketches of 74
as art critic 113–15
articles and essays 372–5, 379–80, 381–2, 397–8, 409–11, 418
at country house parties 420–3
in Belgium 150–1
birth and baptismal names 3–4, 12
blackmail over ‘madness of kisses’ letter 473–4, 479–81, 544
character 21, 30, 62–3, 79, 139–40, 151
conversation 343–4
physical manner 343
questionnaire on ‘tastes, habits and convictions’ 117–18
childhood 13–18
death of sister 25–6
family holidays 14–16, 17, 24–5
letters to his mother 27–8
shooting and fishing 24, 43
visit to Paris 26–7
death 712–15
dress 29
at Oxford 62, 67, 68, 72
on British lecture tour 290, 316
in exile 675, 682
lectures on 313–15, 316
lectures on women’s dress 305
in London 138, 139, 344
in Paris 275
on release from prison 620
in the United States 194, 203, 206, 222, 225–6, 266–7, 292
and dress reform 212, 213, 350
Eighty Club membership 358–9
in exile
assumes name of Sebastian Melmoth 618
in Dieppe and Berneval-sur-Mer 628–48
in Naples 648, 649–70, 657
in Paris 670, 673–85, 686–92, 698–702
philosophy of failure 699–700
fairy tales 259, 274, 334, 335, 345–6, 347, 348–9, 363–6, 380–1, 405, 423, 502–3
financial troubles 151, 271, 286, 349, 495, 499, 512, 538
and American lecture tour 232–4
at Oxford 94–5, 118
in exile 652–3, 659, 663, 680, 688–9, 709, 710
and imprisonment 592, 593–4, 597