Dr Devon Cox is an art and theatre historian with a specialisation in the Aesthetic Movement. In 2015, he published a biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street, which was nominated for the prestigious William MB Berger Prize in British Art History. Between 2018 and 2020, he catalogued paintings in the collection of Mells Manor, Somerset for the Paul Mellon Centre's Collection and Display project. In 2022, he edited Constance Wilde's Autograph Book, 1886-1896 for the Oscar Wilde Society. He is currently working on a new biography of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be published in 2025.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: 'A Crop of Lilies and Sunflowers': Performing the Æsthetic
Movement
Plays:
The Grasshopper (1877) by John Hollingshead
Where's the Cat? (1880) by James Albery
The Colonel (1881) by F.C. Burnand
Patience (1881) by W.S. Gilbert
Chronology
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
