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Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee) was born on 27th December 1821 at Wexford in Ireland, the youngest of 4 children.
Her father died when she was 3 and she was largely self-educated and, it is said, mastered 10 languages by the age of 18.
On 12th November 1851 she married Sir William Wilde, an eye and ear surgeon and also a researcher of folklore, in Dublin. They had three children: among...
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee) was born on 27th December 1821 at Wexford in Ireland, the youngest of 4 children.
Her father died when she was 3 and she was largely self-educated and, it is said, mastered 10 languages by the age of 18.
On 12th November 1851 she married Sir William Wilde, an eye and ear surgeon and also a researcher of folklore, in Dublin. They had three children: among...