INDICATORS ON OSCAR WILDE BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

In 1871, when Wilde was seventeen, his elder fifty percent-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned at a dance inside their property at Drumacon, Co Cavan. One of many sisters experienced brushed from the flames of a fireplace or a candelabra and her gown caught hearth; in various versions, the man she was dancing with carried her