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Constance Lloyd
Constance Lloyd. Painting by Louis Desanges 1882
Born	Constance Mary Lloyd (1858-01-02)2 January 1858 London, Uk
Died	seven April 1898(1898-04-07) (aged 40) Genoa, Italy
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Irish
Period	Victorian
Genre	Children'southward stories
Notable works	There Was Once
Spouse	Oscar Wilde ​ (m. 1884)​
Children	Cyril Holland Vyvyan Holland
Relatives	Merlin Kingdom of the netherlands (grandson)

Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 Jan 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish author. She was also the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.

Early on life and marriage [edit]

Constance with her son Cyril in 1889

The daughter of Horace Lloyd, an Anglo-Irish gaelic barrister, and Adelaide Barbara Atkinson, who had married in 1855 in Dublin, Constance Lloyd was born at her parents' dwelling in Harewood Square, Marylebone, London.^[i] Registration of births did not become compulsory until 1875 and her parents omitted to do this.^[2]

She married Wilde at St James's Church, Paddington on 29 May 1884.^[3] Their two sons Cyril and Vyvyan were born in the next two years.

In 1888 Constance Wilde published a book based on children's stories she had heard from her grandmother, called In that location Was Once. She and her husband were involved in the dress reform motility.^[4]

It is unknown at what point Constance became aware of her husband'due south homosexual relationships. In 1891 she met his lover Lord Alfred Douglas when Wilde brought him to their dwelling for a visit. Around this time Wilde was living more than in hotels, such equally the Avondale Hotel,^[v] than at their habitation in Tite Street. Since the birth of their 2d son, they had become sexually estranged.^{[6] [ folio needed ]}

In 1894, Constance was staying in Worthing with Oscar Wilde and started assembling a collection of epigrams ("Oscariana") from Wilde's works. The intention was that it exist published by Arthur Humphreys, with whom she briefly vicious in love that summer. In the event the book was published privately the following year.^[7]

Co-ordinate to son Vyvyan's 1954 autobiography, the boys had a relatively happy childhood and their father was a loving parent.^[viii] Richard Ellman's biography of Wilde recounted an occasion when he warned his sons about naughty boys who made their mamas cry; they asked him what happened to absent papas who fabricated mamas cry. Nevertheless, by all accounts, she and Wilde remained on good terms.^{[6] [ folio needed ]}

After Wilde's confidence and imprisonment, Constance inverse her and her sons' last name to Holland to dissociate them from his scandal.^[ix] The couple never divorced, just Constance forced Wilde to give up his parental rights. She moved with her sons to Switzerland and enrolled them in an English-language boarding school in Germany. They never saw their begetter once more.^{[ citation needed ]}

Constance visited Oscar in prison so she could tell him the news of his mother's expiry.^[10] After he had been released from prison, she refused to send him any money unless he no longer associated with Douglas.

Illness and death [edit]

Constance died on 7 Apr 1898, five days after a surgery conducted past Luigi Maria Bossi.^[11] According to The Guardian, "theories [virtually her expiry] have ranged from spinal damage following a fall downward stairs to syphilis caught from her husband."^[12] Also according to The Guardian, Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde, "unearthed medical show within individual family letters, which has enabled a dr. to determine the likely cause of Constance's demise. The letters reveal symptoms present associated with multiple sclerosis simply apparently wrongly diagnosed past her 2 doctors".^[12] Multiple sclerosis was then a little-known condition.

Constance sought help from two doctors. 1 of them was a "nervus doctor" from Heidelberg, Germany, who resorted to dubious remedies. The 2nd md—Luigi Maria Bossi—conducted 2 operations (for uterine fibroid) in 1895 and 1898, the latter of which ultimately led to her death.^[11] According to The Lancet,^{[ when? ]} "the surgery Bossi performed in December 1895 was probably an anterior vaginal wall repair to correct urinary difficulties from a presumed bladder prolapse. In retrospect, the actual trouble was probably neurogenic and not structural in origin".^{[ citation needed ]}

During the second surgery in April 1898, Bossi probably "did not try a hysterectomy merely just excised the tumour in a myomectomy". Before long after the surgery Constance developed uncontrollable vomiting which led to aridity and death. The firsthand cause of death is thought to take been severe paralytic ileus, which adult either as a result of the surgery itself or of intra-intestinal sepsis. Constance is buried in Genoa (Italian republic), in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno.^[thirteen] A memorial statue depicting a nude meaning Constance is included in the Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture in Merrion Square in Dublin.

Gallery [edit]

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  Constance Lloyd 1882

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  The freshly married Mrs. Wilde manning a charity flower stall at the Healtheries in 1884

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  Mrs Wilde, c. 1887

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  Oscar, Constance and Cyril Wilde 1892

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  Statue of a nude pregnant Constance; a companion slice to Oscar Wilde statue in Merrion Foursquare Park, Dublin

References [edit]

1. ^ Moyle, Franny. Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde. London: John Murray. p. 14. ISBN9781848541627.
2. ^ Anne Clark Amor, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, a Woman of Some Importance (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983), p. 12
3. ^ Fitzsimons, Eleanor (26 September 2017). Wilde'due south Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew. The Overlook Press. ISBN9781468313260 . Retrieved 25 September 2016.
4. ^ See Oscar Wilde On Wearing apparel, CSM Press, 2013.
5. ^ Moyle, Franny (2011). Constance. New York, NY: Pegasus Books. p. 1. ISBN9781605983813.
6. ^ ^{a b} Oscar Wilde (1987) past Richard Ellman
7. ^ Edmunds, Antony. Oscar Wilde's Scandalous Summer.
8. ^ "A Life of Concealment". Time. 27 September 1954. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved viii August 2008.
9. ^ Robins, Ashley H.; Holland, Merlin (3 Jan 2015). "The enigmatic illness and death of Constance, wife of Oscar Wilde". The Lancet. 385 (9962): 21–22. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62468-five. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 25592892. S2CID 41229933.
10. ^ Ellman, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. pp. 497–98.
11. ^ ^{a b} Robins, Ashley; Holland, Merlin (3 January 2015). "The enigmatic affliction and decease of Constance, wife of Oscar Wilde". The Lancet. Elsevier. 385 (9962): 21–22. doi:x.1016/s0140-6736(14)62468-v. PMID 25592892. S2CID 41229933.
12. ^ ^{a b} Dalya Alberge (1 January 2015). "Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde's wife". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 January 2015.
13. ^ Oscar Wilde Biography—Poems

Further reading [edit]

Moyle, Franny (2011). Constance: the Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. John Murray.

External links [edit]

• "Constance Lloyd". Find a Grave. Retrieved 28 August 2010.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Lloyd

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