After Oscar : the legacy of a scandal / Merlin Holland.
| Author/creator | Holland, Merlin author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 686 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Legacy of a scandal |
| Contents | Part one (1897-1900) -- Oscar's release -- After the fall -- Constance's & Oscar's deaths -- Part two (1900-1918) -- The orphaned Wildes -- Ross manages the estate -- No longer schoolboys -- Return from purgatory -- Robbie & Boise declare war -- Vyvyan tries to find a purpose in life -- The brothers exchange letters -- A tale of two testicles -- The Ransome libel trial -- Kicking Oscar's corpse -- Vyvyan & the war -- Part three (1918-1945) -- Vyvyan takes control -- Understanding Vyvyan in the 1920s -- The 1920s forgeries -- Frank Harris's Life of Wilde -- Inventions & false memoirs -- Oscar in the 1930s -- Part four (1945-1967) -- Australia -- Writing Son Of Oscar Wilde -- Unpicking Son Of Oscar Wilde -- The Tite Street unveiling -- The duplicitous Mr. Hyde -- Publishing Oscar's letters -- Eton -- The two Oscar Wilde films -- Vyvyan's last years -- Part five (1968-2024) -- (After) Oxford -- The Ellmann saga -- Classifying the tomb -- Constance's tomb -- Poets' corner -- The Speranza centenary -- Wilde, the film -- Looking at the stars -- Moscow pride (& prejudice) -- Cashing in on Oscar. |
| Abstract | "The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde's only grandson. Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what have regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death. With pathos, humour, and his grandfather's signature wit, Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, and traces the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde's posthumous reputation over the past 125 years. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, After Oscar tells the story of Oscar's wife Constance and his sons Cyril and Vyvyan; his lovers, friends, and enemies; the afterlife of De Profundis; sightings from beyond the grave; the fate of the Wilde estate; and Oscar's contemporary status as a gay icon. The most important work on Wilde in over fifty years, After Oscar exposes decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family, and documents a century of homophobia within the British establishment."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-658) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781787705937 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9798889661764 |
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