Constance Lloyd was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.
11 Facts About Constance Lloyd
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The daughter of Horace Lloyd, an Anglo-Irish barrister, and Adelaide Barbara Atkinson, who had married in 1855 in Dublin, Constance Lloyd was born at her parents' home in Harewood Square, Marylebone, London.
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Constance Lloyd married Wilde at St James's Church, Paddington on 29 May 1884.
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In 1888 Constance Wilde published a book based on children's stories she had heard from her grandmother, called There Was Once.
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In 1894, Constance Lloyd was staying in Worthing with Oscar Wilde and started assembling a collection of epigrams from Wilde's works.
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The couple never divorced, but Constance Lloyd forced Wilde to give up his parental rights.
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Constance Lloyd moved with her sons to Switzerland and enrolled them in an English-language boarding school in Germany.
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Constance Lloyd visited Oscar in prison so she could tell him the news of his mother's death.
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Constance Lloyd died on 7 April 1898, five days after a surgery conducted by Luigi Maria Bossi.
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Shortly after the surgery Constance Lloyd developed uncontrollable vomiting which led to dehydration and death.
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Constance Lloyd is buried in Genoa, in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno.