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...The Wildes became embroiled in a libel trial that engrossed Dublin society, brought by Mary Travers, a former patient of Sir William’s and probable spurned ex-lover who claimed he had drugged and sexually...
...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...The Pope will leave a floral wreath at the base of the 19th-century column of the Virgin Mary in Piazza Mignanelli at 4pm....
...‘Oscar’, Regent Theatre The Australian Ballet is staging the world premiere of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s work, commissioned especially for the company, based on the life and work of Oscar Wilde...
...I said, ‘Hey, I think the Virgin Mary appeared,” he laughs....
...The author of the quip, Savoy archivist Susan Scott discovered, was Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde....
...Harris’s Original Pick-Me-Up bitters, a tonic that is said to have been a favourite of Oscar Wilde....
...She is now such a brand that her programmes bear her name: Meet the Romans with Mary Beard or Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit....
...Oscar Wilde, who lived in Chelsea, was staying at the hotel when, in 1895, he was notoriously arrested and later imprisoned for “gross indecency”....
...A Conversation with Oscar Wilde in central London has had the cigarette sawn from her subject’s fingers....
...First comes a Bloody Mary made with a distillate of black mustard leaves, which has a fiery, earthy taste like wasabi nuts. Next, a fragrant hogweed martini....
...; and the lyrics of 1980s Scottish indie band The Jesus and Mary Chain....
...The director Autumn de Wilde has explained her presentation....
...It verged on screwball comedy in Autumn de Wilde’s film version starring Anya Taylor-Joy last year....
...It finally had its world premiere, more than a century later, on the radio, after two sleuth-like academics (Laura Rattray and Mary Chinery) unearthed it in an archive....
...Stewart is also behind the chintzy bonnets worn by Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth in Autumn de Wilde’s recent buzzy adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma....
...It is thought to have influenced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and JMW Turner’s sunsets. @rhymerrigby...
...In my suite, I found the autobiography of designer Mary Quant, which harks back to the 1960s when Chelsea “suddenly became Britain’s San Francisco, Greenwich Village and the Left Bank . . . its name interpreted...
...In Wilde Senior’s case, the libel action — brought by Mary Travers, a patient and family friend, against his wife Jane — also involved a claim that Sir William had drugged and raped Travers....
...His legitimate sister, Isola, died aged nine of a fever; his illegitimate sisters, Emily and Mary, died from burns following a domestic accident....
...in the quiet garden of an LGBT community centre in New York’s Greenwich Village, across the street from a church where she’s installing an exhibit paying homage to writer and gay-liberation icon Oscar Wilde...
...The Marquess of Queensberry left a note for playwright Oscar Wilde, calling him a “somdomite” [sic]....
...When she sat for Cecil Beaton, Ansel Adams, Bruce Weber, Yousuf Karsh, Mary Nichols and Philippe Halsman, she often faced away from the lens....
...The Suit: Form, Function and Style, by Christopher Breward, Reaktion, RRP £18/$27, 240 pages Shahidha Bari is lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London...
...Bernadette (1990), the story of a young French girl who saw visions of the Virgin Mary, had the blessing of the Pope, but even that could not save it from closing in less than a month....
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