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

Schenkar, Joan

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ISBN 10: 1860495702 ISBN 13: 9781860495700

Casa editrice: Virago, 2000

Riassunto

Born a scant three months after her uncle's notorious arrest and raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth Century, Dorothy Ierne Wilde was a 'born writer' who never completed the creative life promised by her famous name and gorgeous imagination. Dolly Wilde made her career in the salons - and in the bedrooms - of some of London and Paris's most interesting women and men. Attracting people of taste and talent wherever she went, Dolly drenched her prodigious talents in liquids and chemicals, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs, and created continuous sensations by the ways in which she seemed to be reliving the life of her infamous uncle.
In this revolutionary and very modern biography, Joan Schenkar provides a fascinating look at what it means to live with the talents but not the achievements of biography's usual subjects. And she uncovers never-before-published evidence of the hidden life of the Wilde family and of the extraordinary salon society of Natalie Clifford Barney, Dolly Wilde's longest and most fatal attachment.

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Recensione:

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 (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, be (Edmund White)

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* The truly wild story of Oscar Wilde's niece Dorothy who like him lived a passionate and flamboyant life and died exactly as she lived: vividly, rather violently, and at a very good address

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860495702
• ISBN 13: 9781860495700
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464