LATE LONDON SCANDAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10320, 30 May 1895, Page 2

LATE LONDON SCANDAL.

"- "* ■ - MKB OSCAB WILDE. U&a Oscar Wilde is of Irish extraction. Her maiden name was, Constance Lloyd. Her father hid a lucrative practice as a barrister, and at his death ahe inherited a large sum of money. She has been described a3 exceedingly pretty, of dainty features, and graceful figure. They were married some fifteen years ago, and until the present storm buret upon her husband 8 head, she appeared to believe in him implicitly, and to be deeply devoted to him. Their union, in. fact, was regarded by many as an, unusually fortunate happy one. She continually looked up to the self-constituted autocrat of aeetheticism, and scrupulously adopted his ideas as to dress. Even after he had re-■■-tamed to the conventional styles of men's attire, she persisted in wearing the so-called aesthetic costumes, and these j were frequently described with enthusiasm in ladies fashion journals. The manners of Mrs Wilde are simplicity itself. It is related of her that she even shrinks from the telling of "a aocietj fib." In Tite-street, Chelsea, her homo- was fitted up in. admirable taste, and adorned with desirable pictures aud statuary. Her receptions weie at one time frequented by some of the noted men in literature, journalism, and art. Mrs Wilde has two children, boys, Cyril, bornjjp 1885, and Vivian, born in 1886.