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Authors, Irish Authors, Irish 18th century Biography Authors, Irish 19th century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Frau Great Britain Social conditions 19th century Relations with women Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Relations with womenDudgeon, Piers.
Summary: "Maeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and when she died on July 30th 2012, she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. With bestselling books such as Light a Penny Candle, Circle of Friends, Tara Road, Evening Class, and A Week in Winter, which was published four months after her death, no one else told stories like Maeve Binchy. Humane, down-to-earth, and funny, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITMendelssohn, Michèle
Summary: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. 'Making Oscar Wilde' reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR MENDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMEllmann, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR ELLBelford, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR BELHolland, Merlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.809 HOLSturgis, Matthew
Summary: "The first full biography of Oscar Wilde in more than thirty years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021