“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.” Aaron completed his PhD in English in 2021 at Loughborough University, supervised by Dr Nick Freeman and Dr Sarah Parker. He […]

Darcy Sullivan (Press Officer)“Yes, I am glad now. I wonder shall I always be glad?” Darcy runs EMEA marketing for analytic software firm FICO. He is a regular writer for […]

Don Mead, BEM, served as the Chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society for 20+ years, stepping down at the end of 2023. He was also the editor of The Wildean, […]

Eleanor Fitzsimons is a researcher, writer, journalist and occasional broadcaster. She is the author of “Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew”.

The Society’s Honorary President, appointed in 2015, is Gyles Brandreth, a renowned Oscar Wilde enthusiast.

Jenna is an art and architecture historian; highly influenced by Wilde’s works on Art, and the House Beautiful. Her interest in Wilde began accidentally at 16, after receiving a surprise […]

Joan Winchell, art collector, is an honorary Patron of the Oscar Wilde Society. Her generosity in providing funds for the production of Devon Cox’s Constance Wilde’s Autograph Book enabled the […]

“I can resist everything except temptation.” John is a lifelong bibliophile, Co-Executor of the Literary Estate of Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), and has been fascinated by Wilde and his circle […]

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way home by moonlight.” Although clearly aware of Wilde as a literary figure, it was as an architecture, Aesthetic Movement and […]

Matthew Sturgis is a British historian and biographer, and author of “Oscar: A Life”.

Wilde’s only grandson, who writes, lectures, and broadcasts on his grandfather’s life and works, and whose support for the Society has been invaluable.

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” Having read a censored Arabic translation of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ during her teenage years, Nadia was […]

Biographer of Oscar Wilde and writer on the Culture and Society of 1890s England.

Neil Titley has been writing, acting, and directing solo shows for over 40 years, in particular his well-known performance as Oscar Wilde, in his own play ‘Work is the Curse […]

“A map of the world that does not contain Utopia is not worth even glancing at.” Robert writes theatre history and is the author of The Other National Theatre: 350 years […]

Author of a series of highly acclaimed literary biographies including those of Augustus John, Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw.

Sir Stephen Fry memorably played Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde.

“One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.” Vanessa has been a member of the Oscar Wilde Society for more years than she cares […]

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.” As membership secretary, Veronika Binoeder is probably your first contact to […]