Tag: Constance

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #54: Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle

  October 29, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  biography, Constance, Franny Moyle, literature, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, reading challenge, women writers, women’s rights

  I was really eager to read the story of a woman whose accomplishments and failures were totally overshadowed by those of her husband. While that was not necessarily unusual for women of the period, it seems a bit strange that we should do so for Constance Wilde if only because of the scrutiny her husband…