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Vyvyan Beresford Holland, [1] OBE (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator. He was the second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd , and had a brother, Cyril .
Biography. Born in London in December 1945, [ 1 ] Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is the son of the author Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, Thelma Besant. [ 2 ] He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd. [ 3 ][ 4 ] His mother Thelma was an Australian cosmetician who became the personal beauty adviser to Queen Elizabeth ...
"My life has been one of concealment and repression," Vyvyan Holland wrote in his autobiography, published in 1954. The name of the book was "Son of Oscar Wilde," Which explains Mr. Holland's ...
A memoir of Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, who shares his memories of his famous father, his circle of friends, and his own struggles as a child of a notorious family. Read reviews, ratings, and book details of this biographical classic in Wildean studies.
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Mar 1, 2022 · Written by Wilde’s younger son Vyvyan, it describes the aftermath of Wilde’s fall from grace for Vyvyan, his brother Cyril and their mother Constance. The sadness of their story made a deep impression on me then. Recently I revisited it after reading Richard Ellmann’s biography of Wilde and Franny Moyle’s of Constance, who spent the ...
Vyvyan Holland was born in November 1886. He is known for Dangerous Exile (1957), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) and The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958). He was married to Violet Mary Craigie and Dorothy Thelma Helen Besant..
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Jan 8, 2024 · Merlin Holland is the only child of Vyvyan Holland, who was the younger son of Oscar Wilde. Vyvyan outlived his brother Cyril who got killed in World War I. He wrote his autobiography Son of Oscar Wilde aged 68 and died in 1967, at 80. As mentioned above, after their father had been convicted and imprisoned, their mother Constance had changed ...
