Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Draft in three versions. Version 1 titled, "Countering the Renaissance", which begins: "On his return to London Wilde was in excellent spirits...." Version 2 titled, "The Age of Dorian: 1889-1991", which begins: "The 'nineties began in 1889 and came to an end in 1895...." Version 3 titled, "Hellenizing Paris: 1891: Mallarme", which begins: "London at his feet, though unwillingly so, Wilde turned his attention to France...."

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Draft in two versions, with variations. Version 1 titled, "Hellenizing Paris", which begins: "London at his fee, though unwillingly so, Wilde turned his attention to France." Version 2 titled, "A Good Woman, and a Not So Good Young Man: 1892", which begins: "Wilde was back in London about 22 December 1891 in time to spend Christmas with his wife and sons...."

Scope and Contents Drafts in three versions. Version 1 titled, "A Good Woman, and a Not So Good Young Man", which begins: "Wilde returned to London about 22 December, in time to spend Christmas with his wife and boys...." Version 2 titled, "A Late Victorian Love Affair", which begins: "The nineteenth century was a great period for both the closeting and the uncloseting of sexual themes...."; and Version 3 with the same title, which begins: "Wilde wanted a consuming passion; he got it and was consumed by...

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Draft in two versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Love and Debt", which begins: "From November 1892 to the beginning of December 1893, when a three-month repite began, Wilde's life was inseparable from that of Alfred Douglas...." Version 2 titled, "Sailing Into the Wind: 1894-1895: Falling Towers", which begins: "A letter of Wilde to Douglas, written in the summer of 1894, testifies to his love for the young man.... "

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Draft in two versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Sailing into the Wind: 1894-1895", which begins: "A letter of Wilde to Douglas, written in the summer of 1894 (HD 358) testifies to his love for the young man...." Version 2 titled "Disgrace: "I am the prosecutor in this case", which begins: "All trials are trials for one's life, Wilde would declare after his trials were over...."

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Two draft with variations, titled "I am the prosecutor in this case", which begins: "All trials are trials for one's life Wilde would declare after is trials were over...."

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Drafts in two versions, with variations. Version 1 titled "Doom Deferred", which begins: "Humpty Dumpty was about to fall...." Version 2 titled, "Doom Deferred", which begins: "If Queensberry had not brought Wilde down, someone else might well have done so...."

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Three drafts, with variations, titled "A New Thermopylae", which begins: "Bereft of the company of his lover Douglas, and of his friends Ross and Turner--all three fugitive in France, and unsought by most of his other friends...."

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Draft and partial draft in two versions. Version 1 titled "Prison", pages 6-29. Version 2 titled "Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading", which begins: "Wilde's heroes generally managed to break the law without having serious brushes with the police...."

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Three drafts, with variations, titled "Escape from Reading", which begins: "That love has a murderous element was a home truth without comfort for the victim of society's loveless murder in Reading Gaol...."