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Truly Wilde: The Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Neice by Joan Schenkar (Hardcover, 2000)

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Truly Wilde: The Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece, Schenkar, Joan, Very Good Condition Book. Genre : Biography: general. Weight : 0.84 kg. List Price : 20. ISBN : 1860495702. EAN : 9781860495700.

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The story of Oscar's flamboyant niece, Dolly Wilde (1895-1941) and the notorious literary salon in Paris that she and Natalie Barney established in the 1920s. The Academie des Femmes was a sort of literary circle comprising at one time or another Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Romaine Brooks. It was often visited by men too - T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau. At the heart of the salon - and this story - is the passionate love affair between Dolly and Natalie. Dolly was, like her famous uncle, a witty degenerate, brilliant and literary. In Paris, she cross-dressed as her uncle. HG Wells called her a feminine Wilde , Radclyffe Hall's lover called her much the better man .