The Fall of the House of Wilde (67 page)

7.
Letters to Hilson.

8.
‘Calderón',
Dublin University Magazine
, 44 (Sept. 1854), pp. 353–70.

9.
Letters to Hilson.

10.
Ibid.

11.
De Vere White, T.,
The Parents of Oscar Wilde
, London, 1967, p. 140.

12.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Correspondence, National Library of Ireland.

13.
Robert Graves,
Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton
, vol. III, London, 1889, p. 496.

14.
Ibid., pp. 40, 57.

15.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Correspondence.

16.
Ibid.

8: Merrion Square

1.
Wilde,
Irish Popular Superstitions
, p. 52.

2.
Letters to Hilson.

3.
Wilde,
Irish Popular Superstitions
, pp. 6–7.

4.
Ibid., pp. 102, 12.

5.
Ibid., pp. 59–60.

6.
Charles Townshend, quoted in Terry Eagleton,
Crazy John and the Bishop and other Essays on Irish Culture
, US, 1998, p. 207.

7.
Letters to Hilson.

8.
Foster, R. F.,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972
, London, 1988, p. 186.

9.
Burke quoted in Foster,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972
, p. 170; also see W. J. McCormack,
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literature and History From 1789 to 1939
, Oxford, 1985, p. 65; peerage quoted in Foster, p. 174.

10.
Yeats, quoted in Foster,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972
, p. 168.

11.
Swift, quoted in Foster,
Modern Ireland 1600–1972
, p. 182.

12.
Robert Sherard,
The Life of Oscar Wilde
, London, 1906, p. 95.

13.
‘Oscar Wilde',
Biograph
, vol. IV, London, 1880, pp. 130–5.

14.
Sherard,
The Life of Oscar Wilde
, p. 92.

15.
Letters to Hilson.

16.
Mikhail, E.H. (ed.),
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, London, 1979, vol. I, p. 47.

17.
Letters to Hilson.

18.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 68.

19.
Karen Tipper (ed.),
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Fröken Lotten von Kraemer, 1857–1885
, Edwin Mellon Press, p. 37.

9: The Wildean Missionary Zeal

1.
Letters to Hilson.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Jane Wilde,
Driftwood from Scandinavia
, London, 1884, p. 196.

4.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 38.

5.
Lotten von Kraemer,
Författaren Oscar Wildes Föräldrahem i Irlands Hufvudstad, Ord och Bild
, 1902, translated by Christine English.

6.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 29–31.

7.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 12–13.

8.
R. Mulholland Gilbert,
Life of Sir John T. Gilbert
, London, 1905, pp. 72–80.

9.
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
; see Wilson,
Victorian Doctor,
for an account of the project, pp. 234–9.

10.
Mary Catharine Ferguson,
Sir Samuel Ferguson in The Ireland of His Day
, 2 vols, London, pp. 339, 333, 340.

10: Wider Horizons

1.
Wilde,
Driftwood from Scandinavia
, pp. 203–28.

2.
Ibid., pp. 101–3.

3.
Ibid., pp. 130–1.

4.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 19.

5.
Ibid., p. 15.

6.
Gilbert,
Life of Sir John T. Gilbert
, pp. 150, 81.

7.
Wilde, W.,
Memoir of Gabriel Beranger, with introduction by Lady Wilde
, Dublin, 1880, p. 132.

8.
The Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy
, 1862, pp. 11–12, also quoted in Karen Tipper,
A Critical Biography of Lady Jane Wilde
, 2002, p. 548.

9.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 22, 23.

10.
Letter to Rosalie Olivecrona, National Library of Ireland.

11.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 25, 30, 35, 32, 27, 25–6.

12.
Wilde,
Memoir of Gabriel Beranger
, p. 135.

13.
Ibid., pp. 136–7.

14.
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
was consulted for the background to the Catalogue.

15.
Letter quoted in Wilson,
Victorian Doctor
, p. 241.

16.
Wilde,
Memoir of Gabriel Beranger
, p. 138.

11: Open House

1.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 26.

2.
‘Oscar Wilde',
Biograph
, vol. IV, pp. 130–5.

3.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 57–8.

4.
‘Social Graces',
Social Studies
, pp. 53–78, 70.

5.
Hamilton, C. J.,
Notable Irishwomen
, Dublin, 1909, p. 187.

6.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 57.

7.
Ibid., p. 53.

8.
Quoted in D. Coakley,
Oscar Wilde:
The Importance of Being Irish
, Dublin, 1994, p. 74.

9.
Letter from Henriette Corkran to Jane Wilde, Williams Andrews Clark Library, University of California.

10.
Camille Paglia,
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
, New York, 1991, p. 532.

11.
Letters to Hilson.

12.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 36–8.

13.
Letters to Hilson.

14.
‘Suitability of Dress',
Social Studies
, pp. 108–22.

15.
Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.),
Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde
, New York, 1979, p. 1.

16.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 37, 39.

17.
Ibid., p. 36.

18.
Quoted in Richard Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, London, 1987, p. 101.

12: 1864: The End of Bliss

1.
Frank Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, US, 1916, pp. 15, 16.

2.
Letter from C. Purser to A. J. A. Symons, 28 January 1932, William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles.

3.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 15.

4.
Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 21. For Oscar's disparaging remark on the book see Appendix 1, p. 37.

5.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 18.

6.
‘To Write an Oration', quoted in Frederick Brown,
Flaubert: A Life
, London, 2007, p. 45.

7.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 19.

8.
Hart-Davis,
Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 1.

9.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 38.

10.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 85.

11.
Irish People
review, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 87.

13: Honour and Ignominy

1.
Letter to Sir William Wilde from Sir William Carleton, 6 February 1864, William Andrews Clark Library.

2.
Letter to Rosalie Olivecrona, National Library of Ireland.

3.
Morning Post
, 16 December 1864.

4.
Dublin Evening Mail
, 15 December 1864.

5.
Freeman's Journal
, 17 and 15 December 1864.

6.
Ibid., 15 December 1864.

7.
Ibid., 16 January 1864.

8.
Speranza,
Florence Boyle Price, or A Warning
, quoted in
Freeman's Journal
, 14 December 1864.

9.
Freeman's Journal
, 16 December 1864.

10.
Morning Post
, 16 December 1864.

11.
Freeman's Journal
, 16 December 1864.

14: Love, Hatred and Revenge: The ‘Great Libel Case'

1.
Morning Post
, 19 December 1864.

2.
Unless otherwise stated, all references to the Travers vs Wilde case are taken from the reportage in the
Freeman's Journal
, 14–17 December 1864.

3.
Irish Weekly Advertiser
, 2 and 9 March 1864.

4.
Dublin Evening Mail
, 12 December 1864.

5.
Morning Post
, 19 December 1864.

6.
Irish Times
, 14 December 1864.

7.
All the preceding references have come from
Freeman's Journal
, 14–17 December 1864.

8.
The preceding references to Butt and the chief justice come from
Saunders's News-letter,
14–17 December 1864, also quoted in de Vere White,
The Parents of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 198–9.

9.
Irish Times
quoted in de Vere White,
The Parents of Oscar Wilde
, p. 200.

15: Times are Changing

1.
Wilson,
Victorian Doctor
, p. 277.

2.
Letter to Rosalie Olivecrona, National Library of Ireland.

3.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 41.

4.
Ibid., pp. 45–6.

5.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 109.

6.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems, Essays
, London, 1966, p. 724.

7.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 45, 49, 48.

8.
Wilde,
Lough Corrib
, p. 1.

9.
Quoted in Terry Eagleton,
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture
, London, 1995, p. 9. Eagleton develops the argument that Ireland was Nature to England's Culture.

10.
Wilde,
Lough Corrib
, pp. 210–48, 226, 219.

11.
Moreford, M. P. O. and Lenardon, R. J. (eds),
Classical Mythology
, Oxford, 2007, p. 43.

12.
The Minute Book of the Medico-Philosophical Society.

13.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 44.

14.
F. S. L. Lyons,
Ireland Since the Famine
, London, 1971. ‘The Phoenix Flame', pp. 122–38 gives an account of the Fenian movement, pp. 125, 129.

15.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 43.

16: More Highs, More Blows

1.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 48.

2.
Ibid., p. 49.

3.
Ibid., p. 53.

4.
Letter to Rosalie Olivecrona, National Library of Ireland.

5.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 22–3, 24–5.

6.
Ibid., pp. 24–5.

7.
Mahaffy, J. P.,
Social Life in Greece
, London, 1874, pp. 305–12.

8.
J. M. Hone (ed.),
Letters of J.B. Yeats to W.B. Yeats
, London, 1944, quoted in Hanberry,
More Lives Than One
, p. 174.

9.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 52–54.

10.
The Letters of John Stuart Blackie to His Wife
, London, 1910, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 121.

11.
Letter from R. P. Graves to Lady Wilde, 11 August 1873, William Andrews Clark Library.

12.
Gilbert,
The Life of Sir John T. Gilbert
, pp. 201–2.

13.
Ibid., p. 201.

14.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 34.

15.
Ibid.

17: Transience and Poetry

1.
An extract of the lecture is included in Lady Wilde,
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland: with Sketches of the Irish Past
, London, 1887.