Jane Wilde
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Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1826 - 3 February 1896)[1] (née Jane Francesca Elgee) was an Irish poet and supporter of the nationalist movement; she was the wife of Sir William Wilde and mother of Oscar Wilde.
Lady Wilde, who was the niece of Charles Maturin, wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, publishing poems in The Nation under the pseudonym of Speranza. Her works included pro-Irish independence and anti-British writing; she was sometimes known as “Speranza of the Nation”. Charles Gavan Duffy was the editor when "Speranza" wrote commentary calling for armed revolution in Ireland. The British authorites at Dublin Castle shut down the paper and brought the editor to court. Duffy refused to name who had written the offending article. But in any event the newspaper was permanently shut down by the British authorites.
[edit] References
- ^ Howes, Marjorie. Lady Wilde and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism. Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Foley and Ryder. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998
