Lady Wilde: 3 books

Nowhere in the nineteenth century did interest in folklore and mythology have a more thorough revival than in Ireland. There, in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother and a well-known author in her own right, compiled this collection of charming, authentic folk tales. Collected from...

The bondage of woman.--Genius and marriage.--Social graces.--Venus victrix.--Spiritual affinity.--Suitability of dress.--American women.--The world's new phases.--The destiny of humanity.--Australia (a plea for emigration)--The vision of the Vatican.--Irish leaders and martyrs.--The poet as teacher.--The...

The three great sources of knowledge respecting the shrouded part of humanity are the language, the mythology, and the ancient monuments of a country. From the language one learns the mental and social height to which a nation had reached at any given period in arts, habits, and civilization, with the...