#dolly wilde

[dykewilde]

Dorothy Wilde and Oscar Wilde

[thesobsister]

Dolly Wilde was very proud of her uncle Oscar, whom she resembled physically, in her attraction to her own gender, in her way with a bon mot, and in the self-destructive life she chose to lead.

Unlike her uncle, she didn't write, but did host a salon littéraire in Paris for more than 60 years.

Dolly Wilde: An Impossible Burden

Oscar Wilde’s niece Dorothy Ierne Wilde, known as Dolly Wilde,was born on 11 July 1895. To commemorate her birth I have published the Epilog

The first chapter of Dorothy Schenkar's book Truly Wilde, a biography of Dolly Wilde.

[gloryosablog]

Happy International women's day to;

Constance Wilde/Holland - for dealing with Oscar Wilde's flamboyant ass and still loving and supporting him after everything

Speranza - for giving birth and raising a baddie (Oscar)

Dolly Wilde - for being a baddie like her uncle (Oscar)

[eofaquitaine]

hey king. my pfp has been ur niece since forever. happy birthday.

[unefemmemapparut]

Ladies Almanack (2017)

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Dolly Wilde!

Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly was born on the 11th of July 1895. She was a socialite known for her witty conversation, an ambulance driver in WWI, and the lover of writer Natalie Clifford Barney, speedboat racer Jo Carstairs, and many others.

[image: Dolly Wilde, a fashionable, short-haired woman wearing several strings of pearls, poses and stares into the camera]

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Truly Wilde; The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Unusual Niece - by Joan Schenkar

[a-gay-a-day]

Dorothy “Dolly” Wilde

Though the queer community loves to talk about Oscar Wilde, there is another member of the Wilde family that was just as gay, and perhaps even more wild(e). Dorothy Wilde, also known as Dolly, was born in 1895 and died in 1941. Though she was born after her uncle, Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, she idolized him more than her own father, and was a lesbian. 

Dolly Wilde drove an ambulance in WW2, since women were not allowed to fight in the war. She lived out of her suitcase for most of her life, and relied on her inheritance and the generosity of others. She did attempt to seduce Zelda Fitzgerald, which annoyed Scott.

To her lover Natalie Barney, she wrote “How long I shall keep in the path of virtue I can't say but virtue with an object is so much more salutary than virtue with its own reward!”