Oscar and Constance

Tom Paulin

  • The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
    Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp, £7.95, April 1983, ISBN 0 241 10964 7
  • The Importance of Being Constance: A Biography of Oscar Wilde’s Wife by Joyce Bentley
    Hale, 160 pp, £8.75, May 1983, ISBN 0 7090 0538 5
  • Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance by Anne Clark Amor
    Sidgwick, 249 pp, £8.95, June 1983, ISBN 0 283 98967 X

In the spring of 1882, Oscar Wilde travelled to a huge mining town in the Rocky Mountains called Leadville, where he lectured the miners on the ‘secret of Botticelli’. A fortnight later, he gave a lecture at the State University of Nebraska. Afterwards the students took him out to the State penitentiary where he saw:

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[*] Quoted by R.K.R. Thornton in his recent and helpful study, The Decadent Dilemma (Arnold, 215 pp., £19.50, 10 March, 0 4131 6372 0).