Jane Wilde
Eibhear Walshe
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Jane Wilde

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This new book reclaims Jane Wilde as a significant poet, scholar, essayist, translator and social commentator. Jane Wilde (1826 - 1898) - née Jane Francesca Elgee - was the mother of Oscar Wilde, but Eibhear Walshe shows that she was a notable poet, translator, and political pamphlet writer in her own right. Born in Wexford, she contributed to The Nation under the name of 'Speranza', and issued a call to arms on behalf of the Young Irelanders. She translated Lamartine's French Revolution (1850) and Dumas's Glacier Love (1852). Her salon with her husband Sir William Wilde was a key centre for ...