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Jane Francesca Agnes (International) assertion Jane Francesca Agnes i(7656749 works by) (birth name: Jane Francesca Elgee) (a.k.a. Wilde, Lady)
Also writes as: Speranza
This international person is included in AustLit to identify a relationship with Australian literature.
Born: Established: 27 Dec 1821 Dublin, Dublin (County),
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Ireland,
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 3 Feb 1896 Chelsea, London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
Heritage: Irish
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BiographyHistory

Jane Francesca Agnes, also known as Lady Wilde, was an Irish poet, prose writer and suffragist. A supporter of the Young Ireland movement, Agnes contributed the organisation's journal, the Nation under the 'Speranza'.

Some of Agnes's poems were published in Australian colonial newspapers and magazines in the nineteenth century.

Agnes is the mother of Oscar Wilde.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • See also: Joy Melville, ‘Wilde , Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1821–1896)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29398, accessed 31 July 2014]

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