Holland lives in Burgundy, France, with his second wife. Holland's play The Trials of Oscar Wilde, co-authored with John O'Connor and re-enacting the 1895 trials of Lord Queensberry for libel and Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, toured the United Kingdom in 2014 in a production by the European Arts Company. The symposium was given in conjunction with the opera company's world premiere presentations of Oscar, composed by Theodore Morrison with a libretto written by John Cox and the composer. The address surveyed the popular and critical attitudes towards Wilde and his work from the end of his life to the present day. In July 2013, Holland gave the keynote address for a symposium on Oscar Wilde presented by The Santa Fe Opera. In addition, Holland has also worked as a wine writer and occasionally written features for Country Life, and The Oldie. Holland also wrote A Portrait of Oscar Wilde (2008), which reveals Wilde through manuscripts and letters from the Lucia Moreira Salles collection, located at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. In 2006, his book Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters was published, and his volume Coffee with Oscar Wilde, an imagined conversation with Wilde, was released in the autumn of 2007. The book focuses on how the scandal caused by Wilde's trials affected his family, most notably his wife, Constance, and their children, Cyril and Vyvyan. Holland has also written The Wilde Album, a small volume that included hitherto unpublished photographs of Wilde. One, an unnamed German 'nerve doctor', resorted to dubious remedies and the other, Luigi Maria Bossi, conducted a botched operation that days later claimed her life." The letters reveal symptoms nowadays associated with multiple sclerosis but apparently wrongly diagnosed by her two doctors. According to The Guardian, Holland has "unearthed medical evidence within private family letters, which has enabled a doctor to determine the likely cause of Constance's death. Holland has criticised Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography, Oscar Wilde, as inaccurate, particularly his claim that Wilde had syphilis and transmitted it to Constance. (The book is titled The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde for release in the US.) He is the editor of Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, the first uncensored version of his grandfather's 1895 trials. He is the co-editor, with Rupert Hart-Davis, of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Holland has studied and researched Wilde's life for more than thirty years. His paternal grandmother, Constance, had changed her and her children's surname to Holland (an old family name) in 1895, after Wilde had been convicted of homosexual acts and imprisoned, in order to gain some privacy for the boys and distance from the scandal. His mother Thelma was an Australian cosmetician who became the personal beauty adviser to Queen Elizabeth II for about 10 years from the mid-1940s. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and written about extensively.īorn in London in December 1945, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is the son of the author Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, Thelma Besant. Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor.
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