| Evidence: | 'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator of European fiction, produced a celebrated English version of this German book. Wilde would remember it fondly as "my favourite romantic reading when a boy" and he returned to it at various times in his adult life.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 16 Oct 1854 and 1 Jan 1895 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Oscar Wilde |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Oct 1854 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | J.W. Meinhold |
| Title: | Sidonia the Sorceress |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | read in translation by Speranza Wilde |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 26268 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Wright | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Oscar's Books | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 41 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Wright, Oscar's Books (London, 2000), p. 41, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26268, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Quotation from "Reviews by Oscar Wilde" (London, 1908), p. 388. |
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