Richard Le Gallienne: Difference between revisions

Richard Thomas Gallienne was born at West Derby, [[Liverpool]], England, eldest son of Jean ("John") Gallienne (1843-1929), manager of the Birkenhead Brewery, and his wife Jane (1839-1910), née Smith.<ref>https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34477?rskey=vqcNZr&result=2</ref> He attended the (then) all boys public school [[Liverpool College]]. After leaving school he changed his name to Le&nbsp;Gallienne and started work in an accountant's office in London. In 1883, his father took him to a lecture by [[Oscar Wilde]] in [[Birkenhead]].<ref name=Wilde/> He soon abandoned this job to become a professional writer with ambitions of being a poet. His book ''My Ladies' Sonnets'' appeared in 1887, and in 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to [[Wilson Barrett]]. In the summer of 1888 he met Wilde, and the two had a brief affair. Le Gallienne and Wilde continued an intimate correspondence after the end of the affair.<ref name=Wilde>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giD2qu4C-sUC&pg=PT88 |title=The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde |first=Neil |last=McKenna |publisher=Basic Books |date=5 March 2009|isbn=9780786734924 }}</ref> Directly this affair, he was found staying with [[Joseph Gleeson White]] and his wife in [[Christchurch, Hampshire]].<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=giD2qu4C-sUC&pg=PT88</ref>