From two angles, the hopeless present peering at the deluded past, she revisits the creeping estrangement within their marriage, the struggles to fulfil her own talents and the impending doom heralded by the increasingly-demanding presence of Lord Alfred Douglas (‘Bosie’).Īs this older, rueful Constance comments in her letter upon the hopeful girl she once was, she begins to piece together some of the multiple narratives she told herself. We meet her trying to make sense of the sorry aftermath. The crash of his ivory tower inundated the little family and forced Constance to fly the country, changing her own and her children’s names. The diary takes us through these dazzling events, her experience of motherhood (and Oscar’s attitude thereto) and right through the downfall and disgrace of the celebrated playwright. Both of them are now exiled from Britain and suffering the devastating consequences of his criminal conviction and two-year imprisonment.Ĭonfined to her room, she re-reads and comments upon the diary she kept throughout the whirlwind years of early marriage when she became the ‘High Priestess of House Beautiful’, riding high on the crest of social approbation. Well, this is a Constance only months from death, writing a long, never-sent letter to her disgraced husband. So, what was it like to be Mrs Oscar Wilde? This re-polished gem gives us a moving and insightful picture of just what it might have been like to be Mrs Oscar Wilde. Now Piercy has revised, judiciously fleshed out with newly-discovered material, and generally spruced up the original for a new edition.
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