num_pages: 442
description: Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century, Dolly Wilde attracted people of taste and talent wherever she went. Brilliantly witty, charged with charm, a "born writer," she drenched her prodigious talents in liquids, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs, and died as she lived—repeating her uncle's history of excess, collapse, and ruin. In this biography, Joan Schenkar has created both a captivating portrait of Dolly and a cultural history of Natalie Clifford Barney's remarkable Parisian salon—frequented by Janet Flanner, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes—in which she shone so brightly.
language: English
title: Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
titlecomplete: Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
genres: History, Queer, Autobiography, LGBT, Biography Memoir, Gay, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 178
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Da Capo Press