Truly Wilde
The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetrulywildeunsett0000sche
- ISBN-100306810794
- ISBN-139780306810794
- LibraryThing596977
- Goodreads430553
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- OCLC Control Number53086636
- Better World Books9780306810794
- Open LibraryOL9482139M
Classifications
- LCCDA566.9.E28
- LCCCT788.W676 S34 2000b
Description
"A "born writer" who never completed the creative life promised by her famous name and gorgeous imagination, Dolly Wilde was charged with charm, brilliantly witty, changeable as refracting light and loaded with sexual allure. She made her career in the salons - and in the bedrooms - of some of London's and Paris' most interesting women and men. Attracting people of taste and talent wherever she went, she drenched her prodigious talents in liquids and chemicals, burnt up her opportunities in flamboyant affairs and created continuous sensations by the ways in which she seemed to be re-living the life of her infamous uncle.". "In this biography, Joan Schenkar provides a fascinating look at what it means to live with the talents but not the achievements of biography's usual subjects: those obliterating "winners" - like Dolly's uncle Oscar - whose stories have almost erased riveting histories like Dolly's own. And she uncovers never-before-published evidence of the hidden life of the Wilde family and of the extraordinary salon society of Natalie Clifford Barney, Dolly Wilde's longest and most fatal attachment."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
She looked, said everyone who knew them both, remarkably like her uncle Oscar.
Excerpt
She looked, said everyone who knew them both, remarkably like her uncle Oscar.
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