Ep 10 - Eleanor Fitzsimons
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Author and researcher Eleanor Fitzsimons is our latest guest in The Family of Things. Wilde's Women - her acclaimed biography of Oscar Wilde from the perspective of the women in his life, opens new windows on both Wilde and his work. Eleanor beautifully written and carefully researched study was published in Ireland in Autumn 2015 and is being released in the US this year and in this conversation with presenter Helen Shaw she introduces us to Oscar's intriguing mother, Jane Wilde a celebrated writer in her own time, and his much suffering wife Constance LLoyd as well as the women writers who influenced and inspired Wilde. Eleanor describes her work as recovering lost stories of women in history and sees her journey as akin to excavating the past, bringing forth what has been forgotten or obscured.
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