Love in a Dark Time
Colm Tóibín: Oscar Wilde, 19 April 2001
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis.
Fourth Estate, 1270 pp., £35, November 2000,1 85702 781 7 Show More
edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis.
Fourth Estate, 1270 pp., £35, November 2000,
“... The third was written in April 1895, possibly on the last day of Queensberry’s trial, and read: ‘Dear Constance, Allow no one to enter my bedroom or sittingroom – except servants – today. See no one but your friends. Ever yours Oscar.’ Wilde had wanted to stay in London for all the rehearsals of The Importance of Being Earnest, but had, on ... ”