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Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
Constance The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde Author:Franny Moyle This is the extraordinary account of the first real celebrity marriage played out under the spotlight of public scrutiny, which crashed and burned in a way that only a celebrity marriage can. Constance and Oscar Wilde were at the centre of a circle whose outrageous behaviour shook the foundations of nineteenth-century society and scandalised the... more » public. Not until the 1960s did British society see its moral framework so tested again, in terms of its attitude to homosexuality, as it did in the so called 'mauve' period. Tea and Scandal radically rewrites accepted opinion about Oscar and Constance from both a personal and a literary perspective.
Drawing on Constance's numerous unpublished letters, Franny Moyle uncovers key revelations about a woman who was the victim of one of the greatest betrayals of all time and who suffered tragically from the effects of scandal. Moyle's exclusive new sources make this a compelling and moving tale of an unlikely couple caught up in a fin de siecle world unsure of its own moral footing.« less