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Mommooshka asked this question about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society:
Any truth to the Oscar Wilde letters written to a young Granny Pheen? It is such a lovely, touching story I wish them to be!
L i was wondering the same thing. Annie Barrows confirmed it was just fictional, as Mary Ann had adored Wilde:

"Dear Mr. Blumenfield,

Ane Mulligan passed…morei was wondering the same thing. Annie Barrows confirmed it was just fictional, as Mary Ann had adored Wilde:

"Dear Mr. Blumenfield,

Ane Mulligan passed your email along to me. The characters we placed on Guernsey are fictional, which means they are composites of people we have known, heard of, or imagined. Elizabeth is not based on anyone on the island. Mary Ann was deeply interested in the Resistance fighters of WWII, in particular a Danish boy named Kim Malthe-Brun, so Elizabeth has some attributes of his, but much of her is imagined.

There are stories of heroic defiance on Guernsey, as well as of daring escapes and infiltrations. I got a lot of information from a book called Islands in Danger, by Alan Wood, which was published in 1955. Mary Ann was partial to a book called Liberation by Nick Machon. There is an Occupation Museum on Guernsey as well as numerous websites about the Occupation, if you’d like to find out more in a non-fictional vein.

Sorry about the Oscar Wilde letters–it’s an utterly fictional episode. Mary Ann adored Oscar Wilde.

Best,
Annie"

from http://www.bookrap.net/2009/09/the-gu...

However, I did find something else that said Wilde had written short stories which were published as fairy tales for children, so Mary Ann probably just ran with that idea. Also a fun note -- Oscar had a sister named Isola. (less)
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