Her great-grandfather was an Italian who had come to Wexford in the 18th century. Even so, she is said to have mastered 10 languages by the age of 18. Her father died when she was three years old which meant she was largely self-educated. Jane was the last of the four children of Charles Elgee (1783–1824), the son of Archdeacon John Elgee, a Wexford solicitor, and his wife Sarah (née Kingsbury, d. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde. Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) was an Irish poet under the pen name Speranza and supporter of the nationalist movement. Stetz describes de Brémont as a "compulsive fantasist". ^ Gerard Hanberry, More Lives Than One: The Remarkable Family of Oscar Wilde through the Generations, Collins Press, 2011, ISBN 9781848899438 ^ Lady Wilde, "A New Era in English and Irish Social Life," The Gentlewoman, January 1883. ^ Joy Melville, "Wilde, Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1821–1896)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. ^ Terence de Vere White, The Parents of Oscar Wilde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967. ^ Hesketh Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, reprinted by Penguin Books, 1985. ^ Robeto Rosaspini Reynolds, Cuentos de hadas irlandeses. ^ "Speranza (Jane Francesca Wilde)", Irish Writers Online. Foley and Ryder, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998. ^ Marhorie Howes, "Lady Wilde and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism," in Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, ed. ⚡ ALL INFORMATION CLICK HERE □□□□□□įor the English author and teacher born Jane Wilde, see Jane Hawking.
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