Fun Fact Time:
Oscar Wilde had a lesbian niece
Yea
YEA
Her name was Dolly Wilde. She was the daughter of Oscar Wilde’s older brother, and was born about 3 months after he died. She worked as an ambulance driver during WW1 and spent most of her free time banging rich ladies. And guys. GUYS.
SHE
LOOKS
JUST LIKE
HER UNCLE
They both have That Face.
I’m so, so happy I know this now.
I would like everyone to know that she went around telling everyone that she was her uncle reincarnated. OK have a good day.
A M A Z I N G
Oh my God, Oscar Wilde and family had Resting Bitch Face.
:D
Resting Wilde Face
That “I’m a gay, Irish socialist in the Victorian era” face.
“Fuck everything about this world”
Side note: it wasn’t just the face. People who knew both Dolly and Oscar Wilde said that they sounded very similar and carried themselves in the same manor.
Both were pretty avid smokers. They both appreciated decadence. They both had very similar lovers.
Also, because history is insane, Dolly Wilde once hit on Zelda Fitzgerald, writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Dolly once said of herself, “I am more like Oscar than Oscar.” And honestly yea, I get why.
Oscar Wilde wasn’t done gaying up the place and came back as Dolly to gay up the ladies as well.
Victorian people: Oscar you must like ladies instead of men
Oscar: *Dies and comes back as Dolly flirting with all the ladies*
Victorian people: Wait no
MORE DOLLY WILDE FACTS!
Remember how Dolly Wilde hit on Zelda Fitzgerald? It pissed him off so much he wrote a character based off her into one of his books to complain about how she was an uncouth bitch (he had to cut it out in later drafts though). Also, she worked as an ambulance driver in France during WWI, where she seduced her fellow female ambulance driver Marion “Joe” Carstairs. She later ended up with Natalie Clifford Barney, an openly lesbian poet. As a fun fact, although she is thought to have died of an overdose (addiction ran in the family) her cause of death was never determined!
















