An extract from 'The Coward'...
This week the wonderful Weird Sisters, Ink are featuring an extract from The Coward Does it with a Kiss on their blog, to celebrate Oscar Wilde's Birthday month.
Reading through the extract, I'm reminded both of how much fun it was to write about Oscar and his milieu, and also how eye-opening it was to stand in his wife's shoes and narrate the story of his rise and fall, and in particular of his relationship with Bosie Douglas, from her point of view. As the blog says, poor Constance Wilde is still so often overlooked, dismissed, or even forgotten about altogether.
Since its first publication back in 1990 more information has been discovered about Constance Wilde from the publication of some of her letters; also, there's been some research into the nature of the illness that ended her short life, long believed to have been either a spinal injury or syphilis, now almost certainly known to have been MS. I have incorporated some of this information into the new edition, published back in 2019, from which this extract is taken. Hope you enjoy it!
https://weirdsistersink.blogspot.com/
Reading through the extract, I'm reminded both of how much fun it was to write about Oscar and his milieu, and also how eye-opening it was to stand in his wife's shoes and narrate the story of his rise and fall, and in particular of his relationship with Bosie Douglas, from her point of view. As the blog says, poor Constance Wilde is still so often overlooked, dismissed, or even forgotten about altogether.
Since its first publication back in 1990 more information has been discovered about Constance Wilde from the publication of some of her letters; also, there's been some research into the nature of the illness that ended her short life, long believed to have been either a spinal injury or syphilis, now almost certainly known to have been MS. I have incorporated some of this information into the new edition, published back in 2019, from which this extract is taken. Hope you enjoy it!
https://weirdsistersink.blogspot.com/
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