Merlin Holland
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Merlin Holland is Oscar Wilde's only grandson. He was born in 1945, the only child of Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, the former Thelma Besant.
He has studied and researched Oscar Wilde's life for the last twenty years. He is the co-editor of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. He is the editor of Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, the first uncensored publication of his grandfather's 1895 trials. Holland is also the author of "The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde", a study of the Wilde-Queensberry scandal.
Holland has also written "The Wilde Album", a book about how the scandal caused by Wilde's trials affected his family, most notably his wife, Constance, and their children, Cyril and Vyvyan. In 2006, his book Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters was published, and his forthcoming volume Coffee with Oscar Wilde is to be released in autumn 2007.
His son, Lucian Holland, is the only great-grandchild of Oscar Wilde. Holland lives in France.
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Holland, Vyvyan: Son of Oscar Wilde. Revised Edition. Merlin Holland, Ed. London, Carroll & Graf, 1999
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