Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1854-10-16 - 1900-11-30
Biography
Irish poet and playwright.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Martin Secker - Richards Press publishing archive, 1908-1977
Collection
Identifier: 1979-014
Scope and Contents
Contains office copies of books published by Secker into which a variety of materials were laid in, tipped in, or pasted in to many of them. These materials include handwritten and typed cards, letters and royalty receipts; Richards Press and Martin Secker publication announcements; press cuttings of book reviews and articles; photographs and clipped photographic illustrations; handwritten poems and essays; and fragments of dust jackets and dust jacket blurbs.Items which could...
Dates:
1908 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1941
Merlin Holland collection of Peter Forster's De Profundis color woodblock prints, approximately 1991-2011
Collection
Identifier: 2011-037
Scope and Contents
Peter Forster's color prints and masks of the image "Awful Brevity" used in the 1991 Folio Society edition of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis. The prints serve as an illustrative example of the printmaking process.
Dates:
1991 - 2011
Richard Ellmann papers
Collection
Identifier: 1988-012
Scope and Contents
This collection contains of a wide variety of research and personal materials (correspondence, offprint and photocopied articles, photographs, and sound recordings) for his classes, lectures, and writing as well as extensive files (including drafts, setting copies, galley and page proofs) for his published books.These reflect Ellmann's long interest in biography, Irish authors James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett as well as French authors Andre Gide and Henri...
Dates:
1837 - 1990