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class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Holland" title="Vyvyan Holland">Vyvyan Holland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> (paternal grandfather)<br /><a href="/wiki/Constance_Lloyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Constance Lloyd">Constance Lloyd</a> (paternal grandmother)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland</b> (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, whose life he has researched and written about extensively. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in London in December 1945,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is the son of the author <a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Holland" title="Vyvyan Holland">Vyvyan Holland</a> and his second wife, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thelma_Besant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thelma Besant (page does not exist)">Thelma Besant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the only grandchild of <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> and <a href="/wiki/Constance_Lloyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Constance Lloyd">Constance Lloyd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McFarlin_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFarlin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wheatcroft_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wheatcroft-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His mother Thelma was an Australian cosmetician who became the personal beauty adviser to <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> for about 10 years from the mid-1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paternal grandmother, Constance, changed her and her children's surname to Holland (an old family name) in 1895, after Wilde was convicted of homosexual acts and imprisoned, in order to gain some privacy from the scandal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holland has studied and researched Wilde's life for more than thirty years.<sup id="cite_ref-McFarlin_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFarlin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the co-editor, with <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Hart-Davis" title="Rupert Hart-Davis">Rupert Hart-Davis</a>, of <i>The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wheatcroft_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wheatcroft-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Holt_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the editor of <i>Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess</i>, the first uncensored version of his grandfather's 1895 <a href="/wiki/Trial_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trial (law)">trials</a>. (The book is titled <i>The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde</i> for release in the US.)<sup id="cite_ref-HarperCollins_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HarperCollins-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holland has criticised <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ellmann" title="Richard Ellmann">Richard Ellmann</a>'s 1987 biography, <i>Oscar Wilde</i>, as inaccurate, particularly his claim that Wilde had <a href="/wiki/Syphilis" title="Syphilis">syphilis</a> and transmitted it to Constance.<sup id="cite_ref-Wheatcroft_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wheatcroft-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Holland_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holland-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, Holland has "unearthed medical evidence within private family letters, which has enabled a doctor to determine the likely cause of <a href="/wiki/Constance_Lloyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Constance Lloyd">Constance</a>'s death. The letters reveal symptoms nowadays associated with <a href="/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis" title="Multiple sclerosis">multiple sclerosis</a> but apparently wrongly diagnosed by her two doctors. One, an unnamed German 'nerve doctor', resorted to dubious remedies and the other, <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Maria_Bossi" title="Luigi Maria Bossi">Luigi Maria Bossi</a>, conducted a botched operation that days later claimed her life."<sup id="cite_ref-dalyaalberge_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dalyaalberge-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holland has also written <i>The Wilde Album</i>, a small volume that included hitherto unpublished photographs of Wilde.<sup id="cite_ref-Holt_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mitchell_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mitchell-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book concerns how the scandal caused by Wilde's trials affected his family, most notably his wife, Constance, and their children, <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Holland" title="Cyril Holland">Cyril</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Holland" title="Vyvyan Holland">Vyvyan</a>. </p><p>In 2006, his book <i>Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters</i> was published, and his volume <i><a href="/wiki/Coffee_with..._Biographies" title="Coffee with... Biographies">Coffee with Oscar Wilde</a></i>, an imagined conversation with Wilde, was released in the autumn of 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-McFarlin_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFarlin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holland also wrote <i>A Portrait of Oscar Wilde</i> (2008), which reveals Wilde through manuscripts and letters from the Lucia Moreira Salles collection, located at <a href="/wiki/The_Morgan_Library_%26_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="The Morgan Library & Museum">The Morgan Library & Museum</a> in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-McFarlin_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFarlin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, Holland has also published features about wine and occasional articles for the magazines <a href="/wiki/Country_Life_(magazine)" title="Country Life (magazine)"><i>Country Life</i></a> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oldie" title="The Oldie">The Oldie</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-McFarlin_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFarlin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2013, Holland gave the main address for a symposium on Oscar Wilde presented by <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_Opera" title="Santa Fe Opera">The Santa Fe Opera</a>. The address surveyed the popular and critical attitudes towards Wilde and his work from the end of his life to the present time. The symposium was given in conjunction with the opera company's world premiere presentations of <i><a href="/wiki/Oscar_(opera)" title="Oscar (opera)">Oscar</a></i>, composed by Theodore Morrison with a libretto written by <a href="/wiki/John_Cox_(director)" title="John Cox (director)">John Cox</a> and the composer.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holland's play <i>The Trials of Oscar Wilde</i>, co-authored with John O'Connor and re-enacting the 1895 trials of Lord Queensberry for libel and Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, toured the United Kingdom in 2014 as a production by the European Arts Company.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Holland lives in <a href="/wiki/Burgundy_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burgundy (region)">Burgundy</a>, France, with his second wife. His son, Lucian Holland (born 1979 to Merlin's first wife Sarah), studied classics at <a href="/wiki/Magdalen_College,_Oxford" title="Magdalen College, Oxford">Magdalen College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wheatcroft_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wheatcroft-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Holland briefly considered changing his name to Wilde. He told <i>The New York Times</i> in 1998, “But if I did it, it would have to be not just for Oscar, but for his father and mother, too, for the whole family. It was an extraordinary family before he came along, so if I put the family name back on the map for the right reasons, then it's all right.”<sup id="cite_ref-Mitchell_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mitchell-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Published_works">Published works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Published works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1998 – <i>The Wilde Album</i><sup id="cite_ref-amazon_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amazon-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003 – <i>Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde</i><sup id="cite_ref-amazon_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amazon-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004 – <i>The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde</i><sup id="cite_ref-amazon_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amazon-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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London: Carroll & Graf, 1999. 2nd Edition.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Stafford" title="Nick Stafford">Nick Stafford</a> (writer), David Hunter (director), <i>The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde</i>, based on <i>Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess</i> and broadcast for the first time on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> as a Saturday Drama on 28 June 2014.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_Holland&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Moss, Stephen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/nov/24/classics.oscarwilde">"The importance of being Merlin"</a>, <i>The Guardian</i> (London), 24 November 2000. (Profile of Holland on the publication of the new edition of Wilde's letters)</li> <li>Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/nov/24/classics.oscarwilde">"<i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> is complete tosh"</a>, <i>The Guardian</i> (London), 24 November 2000. 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title="Cyril Holland">Cyril Wilde Holland <small>(son)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Holland" title="Vyvyan Holland">Vyvyan Wilde Holland <small>(son)</small></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Merlin Holland <small>(grandson)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wilde" title="William Wilde">William Wilde <small>(father)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Wilde" title="Jane Wilde">Jane Elgee Wilde <small>(mother)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Wilde" title="Willie Wilde">Willie Wilde <small>(brother)</small></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde_Centre" title="Oscar Wilde Centre">Oscar Wilde Centre <small>(academic centre)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merrion_Square#Occupancy" title="Merrion Square">Merrion Square 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