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Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and written about extensively.
In a new documentary set to screen on BBC NI, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland asks if Carson deserves the reputation as the man who took down his grandfather. In 1895,...
Merlin Holland is Wilde’s grandson. While he never got to meet the man, he has dedicated much of his life to researching and writing about him, but there is one answer that still evades him: why did he instigate the libel case when he surely knew it could end in disaster?
Merlin Holland is the only child of Vyvyan Holland, who was the younger son of Oscar Wilde. Vyvyan outlived his brother Cyril who got killed in World War I. He wrote his autobiography Son of Oscar Wilde aged 68 and died in 1967, at 80.
There is a moment in the new BBC documentary, Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde, when Merlin Holland actually moans at his grandfather's inability to resist making a joke.
Gyles Brandreth, honorary president of the Oscar Wilde Society, interviews Merlin Holland for his podcast Rosebud. Holland is Wilde’s grandson and an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society. “Merlin’s story, and that of his family, is captivating,” Brandreth says.
Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, writes, lectures and broadcasts regularly on the subject of his grandfather’s life. His publications include Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess , the first complete record of the libel trial which ultimately brought Oscar Wilde to ruin and social disgrace, and The Wilde Album, a pictorial ...