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Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan .
Jan 21, 2014 · Constance Lloyd was a modern woman who married the poet Oscar Wilde in 1884, but faced his betrayal and public humiliation when he fell in love with another man. She was a champion of women's rights, a patron of the arts, and a survivor of exile and grief.
Born in London on Jan 2, 1858, Constance Lloyd married Oscar Wilde in 1884 and had two sons in 1885 and 1886. After Oscar's conviction and imprisonment for homosexual acts in May, 1895, she and the children fled to Europe to escape the backlash of his scandal, changing their surname to “Holland”, an ancestral family name already adopted by ...
- Ashley H Robins, Merlin Holland
- 2015
Jan 2, 2015 · LONDON — Multiple sclerosis may have contributed to the mysterious early death of Constance Wilde, the wife of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, according to a paper published on Friday in the...
A slew of unpublished letters, unveiled by Constance's and Oscar's grandson, Merlin Holland, revealed that she met her end by the knife of an irresponsible surgeon.
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Jun 3, 2021 · Oscar Wilde's wife died on April 7, 1898, at the age of 40. As reported by The Lancet, Constance Mary Wilde was diagnosed with a number of unusual ailments in the decade preceding her death.
