TY - BOOK AU - Bentley,Joyce TI - The importance of being Constance SN - 082530248X : AV - PR5823 .B43 1983b U1 - 828/.809B 19 PY - 1983/// CY - New York PB - Beaufort Books KW - Wilde, Constance, KW - Wilde, Oscar, KW - Authors' spouses KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Authors, Irish KW - 19th century N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [155]-156; Family connections -- Adele and Horace Lloyd -- Constance and the pre-Raphaelites -- Constance and aestheticism -- Engagement is announced -- Aesthetic wedding -- House beautiful -- Introducing shadows -- Scandal -- Grotesque nightmare -- Exile -- Fin de Siècle N2 - "Constance Mary Lloyd Wilde was an advocate of women's suffrage, a amember of the Women's Liberal Foundation in England, and woman who orchestrated her own affairs. She was also the wife of Oscar Wilde and mother of his two sons." -- from p. 2 of cover UR - http://www.archive.org/details/importanceofbein00bent UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2848898M ER -