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| CATEGORIES ABOUT JANE WILDE | |
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Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( poet and supporter of the Nationalist Movement ; she married Sir William Wilde in 1851, and was the mother of Oscar Wilde . Lady Wilde, who was the niece of Charles Maturin , wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s , publishing poems in '' The Nation '' under the Pseudonym of ''Speranza''. Her works included pro-Irish independence and anti- British writing; she was sometimes known as “Speranza of the Nation”. Charles Gavan Duffy was the editor when "Speranza" wrote commentary calling for armed revolution in Ireland. The British authorites at Dublin Castle shut down the paper and brought the editor to court. Duffy refused to name who had written the offending article. "Speranza" reputedly stood up in court and claimed responsibility for the article. The confession was ignored by the State authorities. But in any event the newspaper was permanently shut down by the British authorites. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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