Truly Wilde: The Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Neice

The story of Oscar's flamboyant niece, Dolly Wilde (1895-1941) and the notorious literary salon in Paris that she and Natalie Barney established in the 1920s. The Academie des Femmes was a sort of literary circle comprising at one time or another Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Romaine Brooks. It was often visited by men too - T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau. At the heart of the salon - and this story - is the passionate love affair between Dolly and Natalie. Dolly was, like her famous uncle, a witty degenerate, brilliant and literary. In Paris, she cross-dressed as her uncle. HG Wells called her a "feminine Wilde", Radclyffe Hall's lover called her "much the better man".