The Fall of the House of Wilde (70 page)

18.
Royal Literary Fund Archives, British Library.

19.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 116.

20.
Letter to Constance, William Andrews Clark Library.

21.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 115.

22.
Lyons,
Ireland Since the Famine
, pp. 186, 187.

30:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
: A ‘tale with a moral'

1.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 116–17.

2.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 219.

3.
Nietzsche, F.,
Will to Power
, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, New York, 1967, section 83, pp. 51–2.

4.
Frank Kermode,
Romantic Image
, London, 1957, p. 46.

5.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 18–19.

6.
Ibid., pp. 104, 41.

7.
Ibid., pp. 22, 122.

8.
Ibid., p. 125.

9.
Ibid., pp. 78, 97, 122, 88, 161.

10.
Pater, quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 159.

11.
Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 168.

12.
Reviews quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 138.

13.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 119.

14.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 306.

31: ‘It is personalities, not principles that move the age'

1.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 144–7.

2.
Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 84.

3.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 992.

4.
Ibid., p. 920.

5.
Ibid., p. 982.

6.
Ibid., p. 1034.

7.
Pater quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 88.

8.
‘The Critic as Artist', in Ellman,
The Artist as Critic
, pp. 366–7.

9.
Ibid., pp. 367–8.

10.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 1081.

11.
Ibid., p. 1087, 1088.

12.
‘The Soul of Man under Socialism', in Ellman,
The Artist as Critic
, p. 261.

13.
Calloway and Orr,
Cult of Beauty
, pp. 194–5.

14.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 1084.

15.
Ibid., pp. 1023, 1024.

16.
Ibid., p. 1021.

17.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 352.

18.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 1009.

19.
Ibid., pp. 1040, 1058.

20.
Ibid., pp. 989–90.

21.
Ibid., pp. 1040–1.

22.
Quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 218.

23.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde,
pp. 123, 126, 129, 121.

32: High Life, Low Life and Little Literary Life

1.
Stern, M. B.,
Purple Passage: the life of Mrs Frank Leslie
, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, pp. 3, 135.

2.
Ibid., pp. 5, 98–9.

3.
Ibid., pp. 100–1.

4.
Ibid., p. 122.

5.
‘American Women',
Social Studies
, pp. 123–54, 144.

6.
Stern,
Purple Passage
, pp. 139–40.

7.
Ibid., p. 156.

8.
Ibid., p. 157. The poem was published in
Popular Monthly
.

9.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 133.

10.
New York Times
, 18 September 1893.

11.
Stern,
Purple Passage
, p. 159.

12.
Ibid., p. 155.

13.
Ibid., pp. 161, 162.

14.
Ibid., pp. 163–4.

15.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 129.

16.
Ibid., p. 133.

17.
Stern,
Purple Passage
, p. 64.

18.
Sherard,
The Real Oscar Wilde
, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 238.

19.
Stern,
Purple Passage
, pp. 167–8.

20.
Sherard,
The Real Oscar Wilde
, quoted in Melville,
Mother of Oscar
, p. 238.

21.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 141.

33:
Salomé
: The Breaking of Taboos

1.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 199, 189, 165.

2.
Mikhail, vol. II, pp. 290, 292.

3.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 335.

4.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. II, pp. 292, 290, 291.

5.
Mikhail, vol. I, pp. 165, 166.

6.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 304.

7.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, 192, 165.

8.
Mikhail, vol. I, pp. 170, 168, 170–1.

9.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 304.

10.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 555, 564.

11.
Ibid., pp. 554, 559, 553.

12.
Ibid., pp. 558–9.

13.
Ibid., pp. 568, 575.

14.
Quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, pp. 191–2.

15.
Friedrich Nietzsche,
On the Genealogy of Morals
, Oxford, 1996, pp. 134, 136.

16.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 195, 198.

17.
Oscar Wilde,
Salomé
, Paris, Flammarion, 1993, pp. 88–9.

18.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 590.

19.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 132, 133.

20.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, pp. 187, 190.

34: ‘Truly you are a starling'

1.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 315.

2.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 135.

3.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 347.

4.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 134.

5.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 402, 399, 391, 393, 401, 402, 410.

6.
Ibid., p. 403.

7.
Ibid., pp. 413, 387.

8.
Ibid., p. 403.

9.
Ibid., p. 404.

10.
Ibid., pp. 420, 425.

11.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 309.

12.
Pearson, H.,
The Life of Oscar Wilde
, London, 1946, reissued by Penguin 1985, p. 224.

13.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 205.

14.
Henry James, quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 345.

15.
Eric Bentley, quoted in Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 234.

16.
Moyle,
Constance
, pp. 196–7, 182.

17.
Ibid., p. 200.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Ibid., p. 185.

20.
Ibid., p. 188.

21.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 182, 390, 392, 403, 415.

22.
Moyle,
Constance
, p. 229.

35: Fatal Affairs

1.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 140.

2.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 326, 355.

3.
Hyde, H. Montgomery,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, London, 1957, pp. 62–3.

4.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 326.

5.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,
p. 889.

6.
‘The New Remorse',
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 806.

7.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 893, 882.

8.
Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, p. 69.

9.
Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 356.

10.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 337.

11.
Ibid., p. 355.

12.
Harris,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 105.

13.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 449.

14.
Ibid., p. 436.

15.
Ibid., p. 478.

16.
Ibid., p. 463.

17.
Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, pp. 347–8.

18.
Ibid., p. 360.

19.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 449.

20.
Lytton Strachey's letter to Duncan Grant, quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 357.

21.
Kohl,
Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
, p. 243.

22.
Ibid., p. 228.

23.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 577.

24.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 145.

25.
Ibid., pp. 145–6.

26.
Ibid., pp. 147, 150.

27.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 343.

28.
Mikhail,
Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections
, vol. I, p. 207.

29.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, p. 150.

30.
Letter from A. Mynous to Constance Wilde, William Andrews Clark Library.

31.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 151–2.

32.
Willie Wilde's letter to Oscar Wilde, William Andrews Clark Library.

33.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde
, pp. 153–5.

34.
Ibid., pp. 159–160.

36: An Un-Ideal Husband

1.
Hart-Davis,
The Letters of Oscar Wilde
, p. 346.

2.
Moyle,
Constance
, p. 234.

3.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 387.

4.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, pp. 520–1.

5.
Ibid., p. 521.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 393.

8.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,
p. 884.

9.
Moyle,
Constance
, pp. 236, 236–7.

10.
Tipper,
Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Oscar Wilde,
pp. 161–3.

11.
Ibid., p. 158.

12.
Hyde,
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
, pp. 73–4.

13.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
, p. 889.