Emilia Clarke to appear in An Ideal Wife as Oscar Wilde's wife author-activist Constance Lloyd
dailymail.co.ukEmilia Clarke will star in the film An Ideal Wife as Oscar Wilde's one-time wife, Irish children’s author and activist Constance Lloyd, for director Sophie Hyde.The film will focus on Lloyd, an author who had written children's books and materials for newspapers and journals; and a feminist who was involved in efforts to reform dress for women amid the era of Victorian dresses.Lloyd and Wilde got married in 1884 and had two sons.
Lloyd later relocated to Switzerland with her sons after Wilde was sentenced to two years in prison for homosexuality, which was then illegal, as it was decriminalized in England and Wales in 1967.
The latest: Emilia Clarke, 36, will star in the film An Ideal Wife as Oscar Wilde's one-time wife, Irish children’s author and activist Constance Lloyd, for director Sophie Hyde.
She was snapped in her native London in July Lloyd died at 40 in 1898 during a timeframe she was exiled in Genoa, Italy after changing the family's surname to Holland in an effort to separate themselves from Wilde.The film will also take a look at 'the sexual awakening she experienced after she learned that Wilde was homosexual,' sources told Deadline.
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