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TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE ARTS OF THE BRITISH 1890S CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, DC, 10&endash;12 SEPTEMBER 1999 Author Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde, will be the featured speaker at "The Arts of the British 1890s" conference to take place 10&endash;12 September in Washington, DC. This interdisciplinary conference has been organized by the William Morris Society as a joint collaboration of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Georgetown University Department of English, and the National Gallery of Art in association with the Eighteen Nineties Society. All events are free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. Holland's keynote address, "From Madonna Lily to Green Carnation: Wildean Perspectives on the Arts of His Era," will take place on the evening of Friday, September 10th, at the Freer Gallery. A day of academic talks is scheduled for Saturday, September 11th, in the Bunn Auditorium, Inter-Cultural Center Building, on the Georgetown University campus. The subjects of the talks will include music, theater, poetry, fiction, book design, printmaking, photography, and Arts and Crafts furniture designs of the 1890s, with special attention to trans-Atlantic connections between British and American arts. The conference concludes at the National Gallery on Sunday, September 12th, with a lecture by Beardsley scholar Linda Zatlin, part of the Gallery's Sunday afternoon lecture series. In conjunction with the conference, there will be an exhibition of "British Printmakers of the 1890s" in the Fairchild Gallery, 5th floor of Lauinger Library, Georgetown University. MERLIN HOLLAND, Oscar Wilde's only grandson, spent a fragmented life in industry, publishing, and commerce before starting to write professionally at the age of 47. For the last twenty years he has been researching his grandfather's life and works, and now lectures and broadcasts regularly on Wilde. A journalist who lives in London with his wife and son, Holland is the author of The Wilde Album, recently published to wide acclaim in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. His next two books--a complete edition of Wilde's letters and an analysis of what happened to his works and reputation in the twentieth century&emdash;will be published in 2000, the centenary of the writer's death. (After Wilde's conviction in 1895, his wife, Constance, and their sons were forced to change their name to Holland after being refused accommodation at a Swiss hotel. The family has never reverted to the name Wilde.) LINDA ZATLIN, professor of English at Morehouse College and co-founder of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, is a leading authority on the fin-de-siècle illustrator Aubrey Beardsley. The author of Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics and Beardsley, Japonisme, and the Perversion of the Victorian Ideal (winner of the annual prize from the British Association of Art Historians), she has published numerous articles on the artist and co-curated a major centenary exhibition of his work in Japan in 1998. Professor Zatlin is currently at work on the definitive catalogue of Beardsley's drawings. "The Arts of the British 1890s" conference is organized by
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