Manuscript Collections
The largest collection of Constance’s autograph letters is of those between her and Lady Mount-Temple, held as part of the Broadlands Archive in the University of Southampton. Over a hundred letters from Constance to her brother Otho are in the private collection of Merlin Holland. The Library of William Andrews Clark Jr at the University of California in Los Angeles has some letters from Constance, while the British Library, as part of its Eccles collection, holds a significant number, not least those between Constance and the Blackers and from Constance to Vyvyan, all written during her period in exile on the Continent. The Morgan Library and Museum holds the MS of ‘The Selfish Giant’, written by Constance. Important original correspondence relating to Constance’s flight from England and her time in exile is held in the private collection of John Holland.
Published Sources
Amor, Anne Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1983)
Beddington, Mrs Claude, All That I Have Met (Cassell & Co., London, 1929)
Bentley, Joyce, The Importance of Being Constance (Robert Hale, London, 1983)
Borras, Maria Luisa, Arthur Cravan: une strategic du scandale (Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 1996)
Braddon, Mary, The Rose of Life (Hutchinson, London, 1905)
Brémont, Anna, Comtesse de, Oscar Wilde and His Mother (Everett & Co., London, 1911)
Byrne, Patrick, The Wildes of Merrion Square (Staples Press, London, 1953)
Cherry, Deborah, Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain, 1850–1900 (Routledge, London, 2000)
Corkran, Henriette, Celebrities and I (Hutchinson, London, 1902)
Douglas, Lord Alfred, Oscar Wilde and Myself (John Long, London 1914 )
——, Autobiography (Seeker, London, 1929)
——, Without Apology (Martin Seeker, London, 1938)
——, Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up (Icon Books, London, 1962)
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the Aesthetic Interior (Lund Humphries in association with the Geffrye Museum, London, 2000)
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——, and Rupert Hart-Davis (eds), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Fourth Estate, London, 2000)
——, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins, London, 2003)
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——, Time Remembered after Père LaChaise (Gollancz, London, 1966)
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——, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath (Methuen, London, 1963)
——, Oscar Wilde: A Biography (Eyre Methuen, London, 1976)
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Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline (ed.), Letters of Engagement: The Love Letters of Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge (Tite Street Press, London, 2000)
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Wilde, Constance, The Bairn’s Annual (Leadenhall Press, London, 1887)
——, There Was Once: Grandma’s Stories (Ernest Nister, London, 1888)
——, A Long Time Ago (Ernest Nister, London, 1892)
——, A Dandy Chair (Ernest Nister, London, 1893)
——, Cosy Corner (Ernest Nister, London, 1895)
——, Favourite Nursery Stories (Ernest Nister, London, n. d.)
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