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Constance Wilde’s Autograph Book

£10.00

NEVER PUBLISHED BEFORE

BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY

THE OSCAR WILDE SOCIETY IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE

Editor: Devon Cox
Publication date: 14 October 2022
Print Edition: SOLD OUT
PDF: £10

In 1886, just two years after her marriage to Oscar, Constance Wilde began her autograph book, gathering ‘specimens of writing’ from sixty-four notable figures of the fin-de-siècle. This digital edition includes a full facsimile of every page, with transcripts and notes, plus an introduction by Devon Cox and biographical notes on each signatory.

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Jacob Epstein’s studies for the tomb of Oscar Wilde

Price range: £5.00 through £20.00

Simon Wilson
84 pp; The Sign of Nine, 2020

Simon Wilson OBE has written the definitive history of Jacob Epstein’s designs for Wilde’s tomb at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. He has expanded his in-depth article from The Wildean 56 into a booklet, with new information and additional images. It has been gorgeously produced, printed on high-quality paper with black endpapers and one of Epstein’s sphinxes silver-foiled on a purple card cover. In this booklet, Wilson – an art historian and retired Tate Museum curator – explores the inspirations and evolution of the controversial tomb sculpture. With never-before published images of Epstein’s designs and insightful commentary, the booklet reveals how it morphed from a Greek youth to a “flying demon angel,” how it reflects Egyptian mythology, and how its genitals were hidden and then stolen!

 

Key new information on the scandal surrounding the tomb’s installation in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is brought to light in Merlin Holland’s new book After Oscar, in the chapter “A Tale of Two Testicles”.

This edition is strictly limited to 12 numbered copies.

Please note that owing to problems with customs, we are unable to send books to addresses in European countries. Digital version only available.

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Oscar Wilde, a vagabond with a mission: the story of Oscar Wilde’s lecture tours of Britain and Ireland

£10.00

SALE: The price now is £10.00 + £3.50 P&P within the UK.

Postage for single copies outside the UK is:

Europe £12
Australia & NZ £25
USA £26
“Geoff Dibb digs deep into ground over which Oscar’s biographers have so far merely skated. His tireless researches have produced a treasure trove of lecture extracts, contemporary press reports and ephemera that shine significant new light on a formative period in Wilde’s life and literary development.” ~ JONATHAN FRYER, Writer and Broadcaster

OSCAR WILDE, A VAGABOND WITH A MISSION is the first comprehensive study of Wilde’s lecture tours of Great Britain and Ireland between 1883 and 1889. Using letters, memoirs, biographies, previously unpublished information and thousands of contemporary newspaper accounts, Geoff Dibb gives us a portrait of Wilde which we have never seen before. Click here to read a review by Matthew Sturgis.

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