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

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


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The story of Oscar's flamboyant niece, Dolly Wilde (1895-1941) and the notorious literary salon in Paris that she and Natalie Barney established in the 1920s. The Academie des Femmes was a sort of literary circle comprising at one time or another Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Romaine Brooks. It was often visited by men too - T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau. At the heart of the salon - and this story - is the passionate love affair between Dolly and Natalie. Dolly was, like her famous uncle, a witty degenerate, brilliant and literary. In Paris, she cross-dressed as her uncle. HG Wells called her a "feminine Wilde", Radclyffe Hall's lover called her "much the better man".

About the Author :
Joan Schenkar has been called America's most original female contemporary playwright'. Her works are produced, taught, read and reviewed across North America and Western Europe. She is the recipient of more than 40 grants, honours and awards. This is her first book.

Review :
'At last Dolly Wilde has found a biographer with the intelligence, sensitivity and flamboyance to write the work of art that was her life' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'It is Dolly's posthumous good fortune that Schenkar became intrigued by her...She was a beautiful loser, the book is an absolute winner' Simon Callow, DAILY MAIL 'a fascinating account of a largely unexplored corner of High Bohemia between the wars' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Joan Schenkar has lifted a veil to reveal a sophisticated, overheated lesbian world in Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century. At the centre is Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly- self-destructive, self-dramatising, magnetic. This is a great story, beautifully told.' Edmund White 'Touching portrayal of a louche, lush and lavacious lady who makes today's alleged It Girls look like the vapid paper dolls they are- and a vivid picture of a time when, incredibly, the wealthy and titled were also witty and talented. Dolly Wilde was one of the first recorded victims of those deadly modern diseases, Fame-For-Being-Famous and Credibility-By-Association and as such stands as a dire warning to all today's denizens of HELLO! and OK!' Julie Burchill 'Anyone interested in modernism, gender-bending and or/expatriate Paris will be enthralled.' Sandra M. Gilbert 'Joan Schenkar has done us a great service by resuscitating someone who had been almost entirely forgotten.' GAY TIMES 'Brilliantly written and truly compulsive reading. You won't be able to put it down.' IRISH TIMES MAGAZINE


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781860495571
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Sub Title: The Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
  • Width: 126 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1860495575
  • Publisher Date: 06 Sep 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 385 gr


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