Lady Wilde

Courageous and strong minded, she defied her family's pro Union politics and under the name of Speranza, electrified Ireland with her passionate anti-English tirades in verse and prose.

She married the brilliant eye and ear surgeon Dr. William Wilde, later knighted by Queen Victoria and she bravely defended him in a libel case that was the sensation of Dublin. From Dublin grandeur to London poverty she faced all with courage.