Franny Moyle (60 page)

Napier, William,
26–7

Neilson, Julia,
12

Nervi (Italy),
283–4
,
290
,
302–3
,
305
,
308

Nesbit, Edith,
134

Nettleship, Adeline,
85–6
,
92–4
, 110–11

Nettleship, John Trivett,
85–6

Nevill, Maud Augusta, Viscountess,
128

New Somerville Club, London,
162–3

New York Times
,
238

Newcastle, Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of,
307

Nister, Ernest (publisher),
133–4
,
138

North Wales Chronicle
,
89

Norwood,
25–6

O'Brien, William,
149

occult, the: Victorians' interest in,
165–71;
; Constance's interest in,
171–6

Oliphant, Alice,
188

Oliphant, Laurence,
188

Orde, Charles (‘Tardy'),
39–40

Orme, Eliza,
62

Oxford Union Society: declines Oscar's volume of poetry,
51

Oxford University: Oscar attends,
21
,
36–7

Pall Mall Gazette:
Constance's letter in,
109
; Oscar contributes to,
111
; on Constance's views on teaching children to oppose war,
150
; on Bedales school,
238
; on Oscar and Bosie in Monte Carlo,
260
; disparages Oscar after arrest,
267

Palmer, Jean,
147
,
192
,
195
,
197
,
203
,
225

Paris: Oscar and Constance honeymoon in,
88
,
90–1;
; Oscar visits,
192
,
195–7
,
202
,
217
; Oscar meets Bosie in,
235–7;
; Oscar settles in,
313–16
,
322–3

Park Street, London,
55
,
66–7

Parker, Charles,
262

Parnell, Charles Stewart,
194

Pater, Walter,
127
,
131
,
191
;
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
,
36

Pentonville prison,
276–7
,
301

Pfeiffer, Emily J.,
131

Pinero, Arthur Wing:
The Second Mrs Tanqueray
,
92

Pioneer Club, London,
162–3

Pope Hennessy, Sir John,
191

Portsmouth, Eveline, Countess of,
140

Powell & Sons (glass manufacturers),
53

Pre-Raphaelitism: style and dress,
23–4;
; influence on Oscar,
36
; at Babbacombe,
186
; Constance revives interest in,
212
;
see also
Aestheticism

Prescott, Marie,
66

Prince's Hall, Piccadilly,
110

Punch
(magazine),
79
,
114
,
158
,
250–1

Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of: threats against Bosie and Oscar,
237–40;
; Oscar seeks restraining order on,
240
,
254
; harasses Oscar,
246
; and satirizing of Oscar,
251
; Oscar sues for libel,
253
,
256
,
258–9
,
261–2;
; attends first night of
Importance of Being Earnest
,
254
; presents calling card to Oscar as ‘somdomite',
255
; arrested and bailed,
257–8;
; names Oscar's male lovers in defence,
262
,
266
; trial,
266
; bankrupts Oscar by recouping court costs,
287
; death,
326

Queensberry, Sybil, Marchioness of: Oscar writes to on Bosie's behaviour,
232
; sends Bosie to Italy,
239

Radley College,
324–5

Rae, Henrietta,
30

Raffalovich, Andre,
181

Ransome, Arthur,
326

Rational Dress Society,
109–11
,
142–5
,
198
;
Gazette
,
142–4
,
241

Reading gaol,
288

Reid, Thomas Wemyss,
125

Richmond, Sir William Blake,
127

Ricketts, Charles,
254

Robertson, Graham,
180

Robinson, Mrs (fortune-teller),
261
,
272

Roller, Eva,
269
,
276

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of,
277

Rosicrucianism,
168

Ross, Alec,
120

Ross, Robert Baldwin: letter from Constance requesting booking for
The Importance
,
10
; friendship with Wildes,
120–1;
; homosexuality,
121
,
180
; relations with Oscar,
121
,
123
,
180
; helps Oscar with'The Portrait of Mr W. H.',
179
; praises
Dorian Gray
,
190
; at first night
of Lady Windermere's Fan
,
203
; visits Babbacombe,
216
; letter from Bosie in Worthing,
247
; and Oscar's suing Queensberry,
255
; as go-between for Constance and Oscar,
259–60
,
266
,
313–14;
; attempts Oscar's release from remand,
269
; bids at auction of Tite Street contents,
273
; moves abroad during Oscar's trial,
274
; and Oscar's consideration for children's support,
289
; and Oscar's claim on Constance's life interest,
293
,
299
; Oscar rebukes for bad advice,
300
; and Constance's failing to meet Oscar,
307
; and Oscar's staying with Bosie in Naples,
310–11;
; letter from Oscar on visiting Constance's grave,
321
; devotion to Oscar in last years,
322
,
324
; befriends Cyril and Vyvyan after Hope's death,
325
; sends flowers to Oscar's funeral for Cyril and Vyvyan,
325
; as Oscar's literary executor,
326–7;
; repays Oscar's debts,
326
; sues Bosie for criminal libel,
327
; death,
327

Rossetti, Christina,
9

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,
21
,
23
,
36–8

Rothschild, Alfred,
223

Rottingdean,
226–7
,
324

Royal Literary Fund,
157

Royal School of Art Needlework,
32

Ruskin, John,
38
,
116
,
228
,
253
,
283
;
Mornings in Florence
,
222

Russell, James Cholmeley,
23

Russell, Lucy,
23
,
28

Russell, Mr (solicitor),
258

St James Gazette
,
190

St James's Place,
234

Stjames's Theatre, London,
8
,
82
,
195
,
263–4
,
267

St John's Wood School of Art,
58
,
61

St John's Wood Sketch Club,
58–9

Salles, Lucia Moreira,
136

Salm-Salm, Princess (nee Agnes Joy),
312

Sandhurst, Margaret, Dowager Lady,
153–9
,
162

Sanitary Wood Wool Company, Hatton Garden, London,
169–70

Sarasate, Pablo de,
152

Sargent, John Singer,
90

Saturday Review:
on Oscar's poems,
51

Savoy Hotel, London,
13

Scarfe, Ernest,
262

Schreiner, Olive,
129

Schuster, Adela,
294–6

Schuwer, Mile,
274
,
280

Schwabe, Maurice,
216–17
,
262

Segre, Maria,
317

Shakespeare, William:
Love's Labour's Lost
,
233
;
Macbeth
,
90
;
Measure for Measure
,
233
;
The Merchant of Venice
,
130
;
Othello
,
4–7

Shakespearean Story Book, The
,
99

Shand, Alexander (Alec),
23
,
35–6
,
44

Shand, Bessie,
23
,
35–6
,
218

Shannon, Charles,
254

Sharp (Chelsea builder),
100

Shaw, George Bernard,
169

Shelley, Edward,
203
,
262

Sherard, Robert: friendship with Oscar,
66
,
79–80;
; and Constance's wedding dress,
85
; in Paris,
90–1;
; visits Oscar in gaol,
278
,
280
; and Constance's visit to Oscar in Wandsworth,
281

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley:
School for
Scandal
,
233

Shimada, Mr (editor of
Daily News)
,
144

Shorthouse, J. H.:
Golden Thoughts
,
159

Sickert, Eleanor,
83

Sickert, Helena,
129

Sickert, Walter,
83

Siddal, Elizabeth,
23

Simmons, Gertrude,
224–5
,
243

Simon, John and Jane,
319–20

Sinnett, Alfred Percy,
167–8

Skirrow, Mrs (socialite),
151

Smith, W. H. (booksellers),
190

Snowden, Mr (headmaster),
239

Society of Painters in Water Colours,
48

Society for Promoting the Return of Women as County Councillors,
154

Society for Psychical Research,
176
,
250

Society of St John the Evangelist,
228

Sophocles:
Helen in Troas
,
112–13

spiritualism: Constance's interest in,
12–13
,
175–6;
; in late Victorian society,
165–6

Sprengel, Fraulein,
169

Stanhope, Edward,
108

Stanhope, John Rodham Spenser,
218

Stead, William Thomas,
176

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
9

Stoker, Bram,
39
,
128
;
see also
Balcombe, Florence

Stoker and Hansell (solicitors),
298

Stonyhurst College,
324

Stopes, Charlotte,
154–7

Stopes, Marie,
155

Story, Waldo,
128

Strauss, Richard:
Salome
(opera),
326

Sumner, Frank,
189

Susie (Irish relative),
270
,
274

Sussex Gardens, London,
15

Swan and Edgar (London department store),
117

Swinburne, Algernon Charles,
36
,
38
,
52

Swinburne-King, Adelaide Barbara (
nee
Atkinson;
then
Lloyd; Constance's mother; ‘Ada'): background and marriage,
13–14
,
25
; relations with Constance,
13–14;
; abuses Constance,
19–20;
; remarries (Swinburne-King),
21–2
,
25–6;
; financial position,
25
; moves to Devonshire
Terrace,
28
; calls on Lady Wilde in London,
55
; Oscar writes to on engagement,
74
; consents to Oscar-Constance engagement,
75
; attends Oscar–Constance wedding,
87
; attends Constance's party,
128
; abandoned by Swinburne-King,
159

Swinburne-King, Eliza (‘Tizey'),
22

Swinburne-King, George: courts

Constance's mother Ada,
21–2;
; marriage to Ada,
26
; moves to Devonshire Terrace,
28
; sends poem to Constance,
54–5;
; attends Fisheries exhibition,
68
; consents to Oscar–Constance engagement,
75
; leaves Ada,
159

Switzerland: Otho in,
146
,
193
,
256
,
281
,
303
,
308
; Constance and sons in,
274–82

Symons, Arthur,
314

Tankard, Herbert,
262

Taylor, Alfred,
216–17
,
247

Temple, Juliet Latour
see
Deschamps, Juliet

Terry, Dame Ellen,
37–8
,
46–7
,
160
,
268

Thackeray, Annie (
later
Lady Ritchie),
139

Theosophical Society,
165–8

Theosophy,
166–7
,
174

Thursfield, Emily,
160
,
185
,
192
,
228
,
282
,
284

Thursfield, James,
160
,
228
Tite Street, Chelsea: Wildes' home in (No. 16),
1–3
,
7
,
86
,
99
,
102
; Oscar first moves to (Keats House),
52–3;
; Constance and Otho visit,
67
; decor and renovations,
99–103;
; Constance entertains in,
126–8;
; house burgled,
193
,
220
; house contents auctioned and stolen,
273

To-Day
(magazine),
251

Tolstoy, Count Leo:
The Kreutzer Sonata
,
177–8;
;
Work While We Have the Light
,
161