The Fall of the House of Wilde (68 page)

2.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 3.

3.
Letters to Lotten
, pp. 56–7.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 4, 6.

6.
Ibid., pp. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11.

7.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 32–3.

8.
Ibid., pp. 19, 22.

9.
Ibid., p. 24.

10.
Ibid., p. 47.

11.
Ibid., pp. 25–6.

12.
Ibid., p. 20.

13.
Letter to Rosalie Olivecrona, National Library of Ireland.

14.
Letter to Sir Thomas Larcom, National Library of Ireland.

15.
Express
, 24 April 1876;
Freeman's Journal
, 20 April 1876;
Dublin University Magazine
, May 1875.

16.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 58.

17.
Ibid., pp. 58–9.

18.
Charles A. Read (ed.),
The Cabinet of Irish Literature
, vol. IV, London, 1880, p. 83.

19.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 61.

20.
Wilde,
Memoir of Gabriel Béranger
, p. 140.

18: The Unravelling

1.
Letter to Sir Thomas Larcom, National Library of Ireland.

2.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 31.

3.
Ibid., p. 27.

4.
Ibid., pp. 29, 31.

5.
Letter to Sir Thomas Larcom, National Library of Ireland.

6.
Sir Thomas Larcom correspondence, National Library of Ireland.

7.
Irish Times
, 11 March 1878.

8.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 36.

9.
Sir Thomas Larcom correspondence, National Library of Ireland.

10.
De Vere White,
The Parents of Oscar Wilde
, p. 283.

11.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde,
pp. 32, 41, 54.

12.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 3–4.

13.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 23.

14.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 60.

15.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 31.

16.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 8.

17.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 34.

18.
Ibid., p. 46.

19.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 9.

20.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 776.

21.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 36–7.

22.
Letters to Lotten
, p. 60.

23.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 42–3.

24.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 44–5.

25.
Ibid., pp. 42–43.

26.
Ibid., p. 43.

19: Dabbling with Options and Ideas

1.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 38–40.

2.
Ibid., pp. 46, 50.

3.
Ibid., pp. 19, 20–1, 33.

4.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 126.

5.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 37, 39.

6.
Letter from Willie Wilde to Margaret Campbell, William Andrews Clark Library.

7.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 54.

8.
Letter from Willie to Margaret Campbell, William Andrews Clark Library.

9.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 33, 217–8.

10.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 338.

11.
See W. G. Collingwood,
The Life of John Ruskin
, London, 1893, 2 vols, or E.T. Cook,
The Life of John Ruskin
, London, 1911, 2 vols.

12.
O'Brien, K., ‘An Edition of Oscar Wilde's Lectures', Canada, 1982, p. 96; comparison with Ruskin quoted in N. Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, Cambridge, 1989, p. 76.

13.
O'Brien, K.,
Oscar Wilde in Canada: an apostle for the arts
, Toronto, 1982, p. 126.

14.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 471.

15.
For Pater see M. Levey,
The Case of Walter Pater
, London, 1978, chapters 1–4.

16.
Quotations from Walter Pater, ‘Conclusion' to
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
, Oxford, 2010.

17.
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
, Introduction, p. xiii.

18.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 46–7.

20: Openings and Closings

1.
R. Ellmann (ed.),
The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
, New York, 1968, p. 15.

2.
Paglia,
Sexual Personae
, p. 490.

3.
Ellmann,
The Artist as Critic
, p. 65.

4.
‘The Grosvenor Gallery',
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
, July 1877.

5.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 76–7.

6.
Pater,
Studies in the History of the Renaissance,
pp. 70–1.

7.
Paglia,
Sexual Personae
, p. 489.

8.
Pater,
Studies in the History of the Renaissance,
p. 3.

9.
Clarke, quoted in the introduction of Pater,
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
, p. ix.

10.
Hart-Davis,
Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 39–40.

11.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 51, 52.

12.
Ibid., p. 50.

13.
Ibid., pp. 52–3.

14.
Ibid., pp. 58, 56–7, 58.

15.
Ibid., pp. 60–1.

21: Literary Bohemia

1.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 105.

2.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 24, 62.

3.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 257.

4.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 66.

5.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, p. 263.

6.
Ibid., p. 261.

7.
Ibid., vol. II, p. 257.

8.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 63.

9.
Holroyd, J. E., ‘Brother to Oscar',
Blackwood's Magazine
, March 1979.

10.
Cresswell Ingleby, L.,
Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences
, London, 1912, p. 150.

11.
Hibbert, H. G.,
Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life
, New York, 1916.

12.
Cresswell Ingleby,
Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences
, p. 150.

13.
Holroyd, M.,
George Bernard Shaw
, vol. I, 1856–98, London, 1988, pp. 80, 104, 105.

14.
Cresswell Ingleby,
Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences
, p. 150.

15.
Holroyd, ‘Brother to Oscar'.

16.
Luther Munday,
A Chronicle of Friendships
, London, 1907, p. 97.

17.
Arthur Binstead, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, London, 1927, p. 152.

18.
Holroyd, ‘Brother to Oscar'.

19.
Cresswell Ingleby,
Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences
, pp. 155, 154.

20.
Ibid., pp. 152–3, 26, 28.

21.
Comtesse de Brémont,
Oscar Wilde and his Mother: A Memoir
, London, 1911, pp. 53–4, 67.

22.
Cresswell Ingleby,
Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences
, pp. 161, 154–5, 157–8, 154, 156–8.

23.
Quote in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 152.

24.
Binstead, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 154.

25.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 64, 71.

26.
Ibid., p. 76.

27.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,
p. 770.

28.
Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 16.

29.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 79, 80.

30.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 141–2.

22: Divergent Paths

1.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 62–3.

2.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 5.

3.
Ibid., pp. 36–7.

4.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 87, 85.

5.
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 65–6.

6.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 157.

7.
O'Brien,
Oscar Wilde: an apostle for the arts
, p. 31.

8.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 48–9.

9.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 69–71.

10.
Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 166.

11.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 89.

12.
Ibid., p. 92.

13.
Ibid., p. 91.

14.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 92–3, ‘Wild Man of Borneo', p. 106.

15.
Ibid., p. 94.

16.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 53.

17.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 97.

18.
See O'Brien,
Oscar Wilde: an apostle for the arts
, for a discussion of lectures, pp. 32–41.

19.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 99.

20.
Ibid., p. 114.

21.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 74.

23: Looking to America

1.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 49.

2.
Lyons,
Ireland Since the Famine
, pp. 166–77.

3.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 76–7.

4.
Lyons,
Ireland Since the Famine
, p. 168.

5.
Lady's Pictorial
, 6 January 1883.

6.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 186.

7.
Philadelphia Press
, 9 May 1882.

8.
‘Irish Poets of 1848', lecture given by Oscar Wilde at Platt Hall, San Francisco, 5 April 1882, also quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 187.

9.
Rupert Hart-Davis,
More Letters of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 47–8.

10.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 81.

11.
Ibid., pp. 80–2.

12.
Katharine Tynan, quoted in Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 138.