![]() ![]() Travers won damages of a farthing and costs, but public and press sympathy was with the Wildes, apart from some criticism of Sir William for shirking the witness box where his wife gave evidence seeking to exonerate him. Jane's protest to Travers's father, Professor Robert Travers (qv), alleging the campaign was an attempt at financial extortion and serving him notice it would not succeed, resulted in the suit for libel. She hounded Jane and her children when they were on holiday in Bray, with newsboys flaunting placards about the Wildes, and tried to sue Jane for larceny when she confiscated placard and pamphlet from a boy who had forced his way into the house, alarming Isola. Travers embarked on a campaign denouncing Wilde for alleged seduction (at a date beyond which she maintained friendly if not intimate relations), but her real (presumably jealous) animus was against Jane, whose pen-name ‘Speranza’ she used for signature of a scurrilous pamphlet. In 1864 also, Jane Wilde was sued for libel by a probable mistress of her husband, Mary Josephine Travers (1835?–1919). She returned to verse to mourn the death of Carleton in 1869: ‘No hand like his can wake them now, for he/Sprang from amidst the people: bathed his soul/In their strong passions, stormy as the sea,/And wild as skies before the thunder-roll.’ Her Poems were collected for publication by the Nation’s publisher, James Duffy (qv), in 1864 and augmented for the Glasgow publishers Cameron & Ferguson in 1871. Their friendships crossed barriers of religion, politics, class, country, profession, including William Carleton (qv), Aubrey de Vere (qv), Samuel Ferguson (qv), J. Her three children, William Charles Kingsbury (qv), Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie (qv), and Isola Francesca Emily (1857–67) absorbed her time, but she built up a large literary circle around her married homes, 21 Westland Row and (from 1855) 1 Merrion Square. A ghastly, spectral army, before the great God we'll stand, And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land. It indicted her own Anglo-Irish landlord class in terms used in Longfellow's anti-slavery poems: Now is your hour of pleasure – bask ye in the world's caress But our whitening bones against ye will rise as witnesses, From the cabins and the ditches, in their charred, uncoffin'd masses, For the Angel of the Trumpet will know them as he passes. ![]() Her other tongues probably included Italian, Spanish, Polish and Russian, as well as classical Latin and Greek and certainly Irish Gaelic.įrom 1846 she began to contribute prose (as ‘John Fanshawe Ellis’) and verse (as ‘Speranza’) to the Nation, where on 23 January 1847 her poem ‘The stricken land’ (retitled ‘The famine year’) was the great famine's first major poetic response. Meinhold (1797–1851), Sidonia the sorceress (1849)) and French (Lamartine, Pictures of the first French revolution (1850) and The wanderer and his home (1851), and Dumas père, The glacier land (1852)). Her education is unknown but she became polyglot, publishing in her twenties translations from the German (J. Jane may have been domiciled with her father's military or clerical brothers, which (in reaction) could have assisted her adult enthusiasm for Young Ireland nationalism, and Roman catholicism (in which she would rebaptise her sons, though not herself). She has also been credited with a third name, ‘Agnes’, which she never used it may have originated with her son William.Ĭharles Elgee died in Bangalore, south India, in 1824. in 1821 fourth and last of the children, Jane was probably named Frances after the third child – who died at three months – and translated it in homage to Italy, also present in her poetic pseudonym (and she claimed kinship to Dante). Elgee, a solicitor, lived at 6 Leeson St. Jane would contribute introductory material to a new edition (1892) of Maturin's Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the wanderer (1820). 1851), daughter of Thomas Kingsbury, commissioner of bankruptcy, and sister of Henrietta, wife of the Rev. (1821?–1896), poet, nationalist, and feminist, was probably born 27 December 1821 in Dublin, to Charles Elgee (1783–1824), son of Archdeacon John Elgee of Wexford, and his wife Sarah (d.
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