J acob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and often vilified—author of works like The Picture of Dorian Gray.When he ...

In 2014, David, an American visitor in London, and his wife, asked us whether the Oscar Wilde sculpture, A Conversation With Oscar Wilde, located on Adelaide Street near Charing Cross, is a bench ...

Attacks on the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop continued throughout the seventies. One particularly violent attack occurred on August 1, 1977. On what was a warm summer day, an unidentified man ...

Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture. A commemoration of the Irish author, poet, and playwright in peaceful Merrion Square – across the street from Wilde’s birthplace and childhood home.

The idyllic Oscar Wilde memorial walk can be seen as an ironic tribute to a man whose time in Reading was mostly traumatic. He says finally:"I think Wilde was someone who always saw the other side.

Acquired in 1952 by UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, ... “Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery” was published by Yale University Press this ...

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Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and often vilified—author of works like The Picture of Dorian Gray.When he ...