Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a ...

After contracting an ear infection and developing acute meningitis, Oscar Wilde died penniless in Paris. Despite only writing ...

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British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader pass 130 years after ‘gross indecency’ conviction Wilde, who had first obtained his card in 1879, had it formally cancelled on June 15, 1895 following ...

The wit & wisdom of Oscar Wilde : a treasury of quotations, anecdotes, and observations by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Publication date 1999 Topics Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Quotations, Wilde, Oscar, ...

The British Library has announced it will posthumously reinstate gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde’s reader pass after revoking it in 1895 due to his homosexuality.

Despite kicking him out 130 years ago, times change, and the British Library now holds a collection of Wilde’s works, including the handwritten love letter sent by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas ...