Re-examining Wilde in The Woman’s World
Eleanor Fitzsimons How to cite: Fitzsimons, E. (2024) ‘Re-examining Wilde in The Woman’s World’, IWWN Blog, date of posted entry, Available at https://irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/blog/ (Accessed date) ‘Society began to take Oscar Wilde seriously when he became editor of the Woman’s World.’ Anna de Brémont in Oscar Wilde and His Mother…
Hope and Hunger in a Stricken Land: Jane Wilde and the Great Hunger
Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University This is an extract from Professor Christine Kinealy’s article ‘Hope and Hunger in a Stricken Land: the Wilde Family and the Great Hunger’ in Reading Ireland, issue 12, edited by Adrienne Leavy. Speranza…
Recovering Irish Women Writers: Lady Virginia Sandars, a Contemporary of Wilde, Hardy and Kipling
Dr Paul O’Brien (MIC, Limerick) Lady Virginia Sandars (17 March 1828 – 26 January 1922) Lady Virginia Frances Zerlina Taylour was the youngest daughter of Thomas Taylour, the 2nd Marquess of Headfort and Olivia Stevenson. A member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, Virginia lived in…
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