Explained: The enigmatic death of Mrs. Oscar Wilde

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For decades, historians of literature have mulled the untimely death that met Constance, the wife of the exuberant, scandalous writer Oscar Wilde.

An early pioneer for women's rights and a published author, Constance had two children with Wilde but fled London with them in 1895 to escape a backlash after her husband was jailed for homosexual acts.

But mysterious ill health—headaches, body pains, weakness and trembling in the limbs, partial facial paralysis and exhaustion—dogged her throughout her self-imposed exile.

In despair, practically housebound, she turned to a high-society Italian surgeon, Luigi Maria Bossi, who vowed to restore her to health with a radical gynaecological procedure.

Five days after going under the knife, she was dead, aged just 40.

What had happened?

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[lunasun]

1. Pelvic madness

Sad story for Ms. Wilde

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. "Her doctor was eventually suspended from his professorship for two years, before being shot dead

in his consulting room in 1919 by the jealous husband of a patient."

so, guess he eventually paid the price for rampant misogyny.