Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece

Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece by Joan Schenkar


ISBN
9781860495571
Published
Released
08 / 11 / 2001
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Dimensions
126 x 198mm

Born just three months after her uncle's notorious arrest and raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century, Dorothy Irene Wilde made her career in salons - and the bedrooms - of some of London and Paris's most interesting women and men. Attracting people of taste and talent wherever she went, Dolly drenched her prodigious talents in liquids and chemicals, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs and created a sensation by apparently reliving the life of her infamous uncle.

In this very modern biography, Joan Schenkar provides a fascinating look at what it means to live with the talents but not the achievements of biography's usual subjects. She also uncovers never-before published evidence of the hidden life of the Wilde family and of the extraordinary salon society of Natalie Clifford Barney, Dolly's longest and most fatal attachment.
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