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Re: Isola
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I would intuitively pronounce it ee-SOH-luh.Info at the cemetery where Oscar's sister is buried says that Isola was named after Iseult or Isolde, as in the legend "Tristan and Isolde".
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Oh, that's interesting! I always wandered why they chose the name after the relatively plain John and Oscar - I assumed it's because Wilde's mother was said to have Spanish roots and wrote for a magazine titled "Esperanza".
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