Lady Jane Francesca Wilde was an Irish poet of The Famine Year fame. Her poetry was published under the pseudonym Speranza. She wrote for The Nation newspaper, as well as serving as its editor beginning in 1848. Her early anti-British poetry espoused revolutionary action to gain independence for Ireland.

Full, original or maiden name at birth: Jane Frances Agnes Elgee

Date and place of birth: December 27, 1821, Wexford, Ireland *

Date, place and cause of death: February 3, 1896, London, England (Bronchitis)

Marriage
Husband: William Robert Wills Wilde (later Sir William Wilde) (m. 1851 - 1876) (his death)

Children
Sons: William Wilde (b. September 26, 1852 - d. March 13, 1899)
Oscar Wilde (b. October 16, 1854, at 2:38 a.m., at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland - d. November 30, 1900, at 1:50 p.m., Hotel d'Alsace, Paris, France, of an infection and meningitis)

Daughter: Isola Wilde (b. April 2nd, 1857 - d. February 23rd, 1867)

Parents
Father: Charles Elgee
Mother: Sara Kingsbury

Burial site: Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, London, England

* She was not born in "1826" as she claimed for many years. Late in life she acknowledged she was actually born in 1821.

The most in-depth of more than two dozen sources consulted in preparing this profile, was the 1988 biography, Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann.

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