The importance of being Constance
By: Joyce Bentley.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780825302480
Subjects: Wilde, Constance, 1858-1898; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Marriage; Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography
Description: "Constance Mary Lloyd Wilde was an advocate of women's suffrage, a amember of the Women's Liberal Foundation in England, and woman who orchestrated her own affairs. She was also the wife of Oscar Wilde and mother of his two sons." -- from p. 2 of cover
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [155]-156.

Table of contents: title: Family connections; title: Adele and Horace Lloyd; title: Constance and the pre-Raphaelites; title: Constance and aestheticism; title: Engagement is announced; title: Aesthetic wedding; title: House beautiful; title: Introducing shadows; title: Scandal; title: Grotesque nightmare; title: Exile; title: Fin de Siècle.