Oscar Wilde in America by Oscar Wilde

Author:Oscar Wilde
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252092886
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

1. Henry Du Pré Labouchère (1831–1912), a radical and independently wealthy British politician, writer, and publisher, married the actress Henrietta Hodson in 1887. Hodson was Lily Langtry’s teacher and promoted her career. Discussing his last Chicago interview in a letter he wrote to Mrs. George Lewis later in March, Wilde said, “I turned the conversation on three of my heroes, Whistler, Labouchere, and Irving, and on the adored and adorable Lily” (Complete Letters, 154). Ironically, Labouchère was the author of the so-called Labouchère amendment to the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 (also known as “the blackmailer’s charter”)—the very law Wilde was convicted of violating a decade later. Wilde was given the maximum sentence the law permitted.

2. Augustin Daly adapted and translated Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy’s French play Frou Frou: A Comedy of Powerful Human Interest, in Five Acts, in 1870.

3. The English actor H. B. Conway (1850–1909).

4. Helen Modjeska (1840–1909), born Helen Opid, was a renowned Polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean roles.

5. Harold Kyrle Bellew (1855–1911), another English actor.

6. Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937) was considered one of the premier Shakespearean actors during his four decades on the stage.

7. Norman Forbes-Robertson (1858–1936), who acted under the name Norman Forbes, was a distinguished Shakespearean.

8. Charles Bradlaugh (1833–91), a popular English political activist and atheist, was elected M.P. for Northampton several times, but his refusal to take the religious Oath of Allegiance prevented him from serving as a voting member until 1886.

9. Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831–94), Scottish-born novelist and dramatist best known as the editor of The World.

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