Culture March 19, 2013

No one was ever more suitably named, at birth and by marriage, than Constance Wilde. Her first name conveys her near-endless loyalty to her irresponsible, genius husband, Oscar. Even after the worst of humiliations—after he had taken up with the pretty young Lord Alfred Douglas and been sent to prison for the affair—she could still write in a letter, “What a tragedy for him who is so gifted!”