Wilde’s Reading, Acquaintances, Family, Writings, his Relationship with Books & General Themes
Aestheticism (Aesthetic Movement), 101–2, 105n, 110, 111, 209–11, 239
Adey, More, 255, 258, 264, 274
Ballad of Reading Gaol, The, 173, 280, 283, 286, 294
Bards & Bardic Literature, 12, 17, 29, 30, 32, 131
Beardsley, Aubrey, 117–8, 152, 177–9, 183, 280, 294
Beerbohm, Max (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 158, 274, 293
Books (see ‘Wilde and Books’)
Catholicism & Catholic culture, 17, 18, 24, 52, 79, 299
Classics (the subject), 47–50, 60–74, 79–84, 95, 99
‘Critic as Artist, The’, 87, 151, 177, 186, 194–5
‘Decay of Lying, The’, 29–30, 87 (& n), 134n, 162–3, 165, 168, 194
Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’) (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 4, 6, 41, 93, 94n, 111, 143, 164, 165, 188–99, 205–6, 219, 221–7, 229–30, 235, 262–3, 268n, 284–5, 287–8
Duchess of Padua, The, 110, 234, 292
Haldane, Richard, 243, 245, 249–51, 258, 299
Happy Prince and Other Tales, The, 3, 125, 149, 169, 170, 171, 173, 186
Harris, Frank (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 234, 237, 238
Hirsch, Charles (Librairie Parisienne bookshop), 143, 213, 218, 219n, 220n
Homosexuality, 68, 89–94, 102n, 111, 167–70, 172, 186–207, 213–15, 217–20, 221–30, 262
House of Pomegranates, A, 150, 173
Humphreys, Arthur (Hatchards bookshop), 142–3, 270, 274, 275
Ideal Husband, An, 164, 221, 222, 230, 280, 286, 294
Importance of Being Earnest, The, 138, 153, 164, 170, 205, 206n, 221, 225n, 230, 233, 246, 267, 280, 286
Intentions, 146, 173, 194, 195, 279
Irish Nationalism, 14, 18, 24–5, 31–2, 49, 75, 130–1, 147
Irishness and Celtic identity (Wilde’s), 23, 24, 26, 52, 75–6, 79, 94n, 96, 97, 155
‘Irish Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century’ (Lecture), 31–2
Ives, George (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 205–7, 294
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 187, 195, 221, 286
Leverson, Ada (‘The Sphinx’), 146–7, 234–5, 238, 255, 274, 298
Libraries:
Wilde’s libraries: bachelor libraries, 109–10; Berneval library, 273–89; Paris library, 290–301; Tite Street library (book collection), 1–7, 33, 35, 51, 120, 121, 125–41, 146, 158, 179, 182n, 200, 222, 264; Tite Street library (room), 2, 111–24, 159, 162–5, 189–92, 199, 224–7, 235
libraries used by Wilde: prison libraries, 243, 245–8, 253, 256–7; school & university libraries, 51, 78–9, 80–1; Wilde’s parents’s libraries, 35, 38–9, 48, 56, 95, 236–7, 260
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, 171, 194
Nelson, Major James, 256–9, 268, 271, 274, 275, 299
Nutt, Alfred (David Nutt bookshop), 125–8, 131–2, 139, 142–4, 275, 279, 290–1
‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’, 115, 151
Picture of Dorian Gray, The, 25, 42, 43, 83, 92, 103–4, 115, 117, 123, 140, 150, 151, 153, 157n, 159, 171, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189–91, 193, 214, 216, 295, 301
Poems (1881), 110, 150, 167, 171, 174, 182, 194
Poems (1892), 194
‘Portrait of Mr W. H., The’, 92, 168, 179, 186, 187
Queensberry, Marquis of (‘Q’), 1, 188, 221, 225–8, 235
Reviews, 19, 49, 97n, 132, 138, 149, 181, 208–12
Ricketts, Charles, 145, 150, 152, 194
Ross, Robert (‘Robbie’), 93, 167–70, 186, 229, 230, 255, 256, 266, 273, 274, 275, 294, 298
‘Sainte Courtesane, La’, 282, 286
Salome (& Salomé), 7, 104, 134, 152, 182, 195n, 216, 293, 322
Sherard, Robert, 237, 238, 250, 297
Smithers, Leonard, 143, 217–18, 220n, 280, 294
‘Soul of Man under Socialism, The’, 70, 129, 130, 133, 241
Sphinx, The, 145, 150, 151, 173
‘Thomas Chatterton’ (Lecture), 41, 145, 176–7, 184
Turner, Reginald, 274, 275, 276, 299
Vera; Or, the Nihilists, 110, 202, 292, 293
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 183, 209, 239n
‘Wife’s Tragedy, A’, 84n
Wilde’s Authorship, 176–185, 269, 288;
Wilde’s Plagiarism, 180, 182–5
autographs and annotations (in Wilde’s books), 4, 10, 32–3, 47, 50, 61–3, 69, 69n, 70–1, 85, 87, 89, 89n, 90, 145, 210–12, 249–50, 268, 270; book buying, 51, 62, 79, 80, 98, 125–8, 131–2, 139, 142–4, 275, 279, 290–1; book gifts, 132–3, 166–75, 186–8, 192–6; book prizes, 2, 47, 53, 60, 146, 293; format, material properties of books (Wilde’s attitude to), 121, 139, 146–51, 152; handling, neglect of books 62, 144–5, 208; inscriptions in Wilde’s books, 2, 4, 166, 169–71, 173–5, 186–8, 192–5, 195n, 202, 294
Wilde’s opinions regarding:
England and the English, 24–5, 75, 82, 96–7, 98, 138, 211; middle-classes, 133, 137, 209, 211–12, 223; realism, 21, 51, 133–4, 220n, 247–8, 264; science and empiricism, 47, 96, 97, 98, 126, 136
Wilde’s Reading:
aesthetic aspects of, 49, 100, 155–7, 157n; intellectual aspects of, 157–8; learns to read, 39–40; notetaking, 63–5, 69, 86, 92, 116, 159, 268–9; in prison, 234–5, 243–50, 255–72; sensual aspects of, 152–5; speed-reading, 159–61, 209
Wilde, Constance, 110–11, 127, 142n, 143, 164, 170–2, 192, 214, 224, 230, 238, 253, 254, 284, 287, 294
Wilde, Cyril, 111, 143, 162, 192, 230, 253, 294
Wilde, Lady Jane Francesca
(‘Speranza’) (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21, 25, 27–8, 31–2, 33–5, 37–9, 41, 42, 45–6, 48, 49, 54–6, 74, 95–6, 113, 148, 172–3, 201, 236–7, 253–5, 260–1, 264, 300
Wilde, Vyvyan, 25, 111, 113, 124, 192, 230, 253, 294
Wilde, Sir William (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 18, 19, 22–5, 27, 38, 72n, 73, 120
Wilde, Willie, 11, 13, 27–8, 31, 39, 172, 236, 237
Woman of No Importance, A, 164, 173, 174, 221
‘Women of Homer, The’, 181
Yeats, W.B. (see also ‘Index of Authors’), 102, 136, 162–3, 238