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Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan . Early life and marriage. Constance with her son Cyril in 1889.
Jan 21, 2014 · Constance Lloyd was a modern woman who married the poet Oscar Wilde in 1884, but faced his betrayal and public humiliation when he fell in love with another man. She was a champion of women's rights, a patron of the arts, and a survivor of exile and grief.
The enigmatic illness and death of Constance, wife of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde has always been beset by gossip, scandal, and myth making, as much posthumously as during his lifetime. Even as late as 1987 his best biographer to date, Richard Ellmann, reproduced a photograph purporting to be Wilde in drag as Salomé, but which turned out to be a ...
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Dec 16, 2019 · Constance : the tragic and scandalous life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. Part of a gilded couple, Constance Wilde was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights.
Jun 3, 2021 · Oscar Wilde's wife died on April 7, 1898, at the age of 40. As reported by The Lancet, Constance Mary Wilde was diagnosed with a number of unusual ailments in the decade preceding her death. However, as doctors believed the maladies were treatable, her death was "unexpected."
Jul 12, 2019 · Constance Lloyd, the wife of Oscar Wilde, died at 40 after a gynecological operation in 1896. Her grandson discovered letters that suggest she had multiple sclerosis and was misdiagnosed by a quack doctor.
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Jan 2, 2015 · LONDON — Multiple sclerosis may have contributed to the mysterious early death of Constance Wilde, the wife of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, according to a paper published on Friday in the...
