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According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one. [ 4 ] After 1895, when Wilde was convicted of the charge of "gross indecency" and imprisoned, Constance changed her and the boys’ surname to Holland, [ 5 ] and forced Wilde to give up his parental rights.
4.17. 179 ratings28 reviews. With its thirty-three previously unpublished Oscar Wilde letters and its poignant recollections of a man as spontaneous, humane, and sincere as he was prodigiously witty, Vyvyan Holland's memoir of his famous father has come to be regarded as a biographical classic in Wildean studies.
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"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Second Visit. By Brendan Gill. April 7, 1967. The New Yorker, April 15, 1967 P. 41. Talk interview with Vyvyan Holland, 80, son of Oscar Wilde. Robert Ross, a friend of Wilde's gave a splendid ...
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May 21, 2024 · Holland is Wilde’s grandson and an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society. “Merlin’s story, and that of his family, is captivating,” Brandreth says. “His father, Vyvyan Holland, was Wilde’s youngest son, but the family were forced to change their name after the scandal of Wilde’s trial and imprisonment for gross indecency.
