Reading Gaol was a working prison until 2013; this year, it opened to the public with Inside, a major new project by the art organization Artangel, inviting visual artists, writers, and performers ...

The perimeter wall, right, of the now closed Victorian jail where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in 1895 on a charge of “gross indecency.” The ancient Reading Abbey is on the left.

Reading Prison in the UK hosted a rather remarkable inmate 120 years ago. Oscar Wilde was detained in the facility for two years after being found guilty of sodomy in 1895.Now, after remaining ...

Oscar Wilde is best known for his novels and plays including A Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. He is also remembered for his poems, the last and best known of which is ...

A prison where celebrated Irish writer Oscar Wilde was once an inmate will not be developed into flats, the company that bought it has said. Ziran Education Foundation bought Reading Prison from ...

Though the figure on the wall can only be thought to resemble Oscar Wilde in the most generic terms, ... The prison, which was decommissioned in 2013 and put up for sale by the city in 2019, ...

LONDON — A portrait of Oscar Wilde that once hung above the writer's fireplace has gone on display at London's Tate Britain gallery along with the door to Wilde's prison ...

Prisoner C33. 6/4/2024 | 58m 32s Video has Closed Captions | CC. After being imprisoned for being gay, Oscar Wilde (Prisoner C33) explores his identities. In 1895, in cell 3, we find Prisoner C33.

Oscar Wilde’s birthday is Oct. 16 — he was born on that day in 1854 — and there’s a simple way to both celebrate it ... In moments of self-pity Prisoner C. 3.3, as Wilde was ...