Sidonia the Sorceress: the supposed destroyer of the whole reigning ducal house of Pomerania

1894

Special Collections PT2430 M35 S513 1894

London: Reeves and Turner

Oscar Wilde's mother, Jane, Lady Wilde (1821-1896), was a poet and skilled linguist. Her first publication was an 1849 translation of a German Gothic tale, Sidonia the Sorceress, which tells the story of a sixteenth-century noblewoman tried and executed for witchcraft. Oscar Wilde declared this work ‘my favourite romantic reading when a boy’.