Vyvyan Holland (1886 – 1967), born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde, was a British author and translator. He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril. After Wilde was convicted of the charge of "gross indecency" and imprisoned, Lloyd changed her surname, and those of their sons, to Holland.[1] Due to antipathy to Wilde, Holland was denied admittance to Oxford University.[2] After surviving World War I, Vyvyan went on to become an author and translator. At the beginning of the Second World War, Holland was offered a position as a translator and editor for the BBC, a post he held for six years. In 1943, he married Australian Thelma Besant. Their only child, Merlin Holland, became a publisher, a dealer in glass and ceramics, and a writer who edited and published several works about his grandfather; his son, Lucian, was born in 1979.
Books
- Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), memoir
- Oscar Wilde - a pictorial biography (1960)
References
- ^ (1954-09-27) "A Life of Concealment". Time haha. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
- ^ "Died. Vyvyan Holland.", TIME magazine, October 20 1967. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
Holland, Vyvyan: Son of Oscar Wilde. Revised Edition. Merlin Holland, Ed. London, Carroll & Graf, 1999
