Search results
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 · It was a circle in which young Constance Lloyd found herself enthralled and seduced by its rising star, the critic, poet, and playboy Oscar Wilde, the twentieth century’s first pop culture celebrity.
Jan 3, 2015 · 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 ...
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 · On May 29, 1884, the Irish author Oscar Wilde married the author and political activist Constance Lloyd. The couple went on to have two children, Cyril and Vyvyan. We look back on the...
Mar 15, 2013 · Two sketchier, nearly forgotten biographies of Constance Wilde appeared in 1983, and millions of words have been written about her husband’s tragedy. Moyle reminds us that Constance, once so ...
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...
