The Definitive Guide to Oscar Wilde Biography
In 1871, when Wilde was seventeen, his elder 50 percent-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned at a dance inside their house at Drumacon, Co Cavan. One of the sisters experienced brushed against the flames of a fire or a candelabra and her gown caught fireplace; in many variations, the man she was dancing with carried her and he