by Neil McKenna
O'Sullivan, Vincent, Some Letters to A.JA. Symons (Edinburgh, 1975) Aspects of Wilde (London, 1978)
Oxford, Margot, More Memories (London, 1933)
Pearson, Hesketh, The Life q f Oscar Wilde (Middlesex, 1960)
Pine, Richard, The Thief o f Reason (Dublin, 1995)
Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1997)
Prisons Committee, Report From the Departmental Committee on Prisons (London, 1895)
Pullar, Phillippa, Frank Harris (New York, 1972)
Queensberry, Marquess of, and Percy Colson, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas (London, 1949)
Raby, Peter, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge, 1997)
Raffalovich, Andre, A Willing Exile (London, 1890)
Uranisme et Unisexualite (Lyon, 1896)
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London, 1912)
Reade, Brian, editor, Sexual Heretics (New York, 1970)
Rhodes James, Robert, Rosebery (London, 1985)
Roberts, Brian, The Mad Bad Line: The Family o f Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 1981)
Robertson, W. Graham, Time Was (London, 1931)
Ross, Margery, Robert Ross: Friend o f Friends (London, 1952)
Rothenstein, William, Men and Memories (New York, 1931)
Ryskamp, Charles, editor, Wilde and the Nineties: An Essay and an Exhibition (New Jersey, 1966)
Sandulescu, C. George, and Colin Smythe, editors, Rediscovering Oscar Wilde (Gerrards Cross, 1994)
Saul, Jack, Sins o f the City q f the Plain: or the Recollections o f a Mary Ann (London, 1881)
Schmidgall, Gary, The Stranger Wilde (New York, 1994)
Walt Whitman: A Gay Life (New York, 1998)
Sewell, Brocard, In the Dorian Mode: A Li fe o f5ohn Gray (Cornwall, 1983)
Sherard, Robert, Oscar Wilde: the Story of-an- Unhappy Friendship (London, 1908)
The Life of Oscar Wilde (London, 1911)
Bernard Sham, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde (London, 1937)
Sheridan, Alan, Andre Gide: A Life in the Present (London, 1998)
Showalter, Elaine, Sexual Anarchy (Middlesex, 1990)
Simpson, Colin, Lewis Chester and David Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair (Toronto, 1976)
Sinfield, Alan, The Wilde Century (London, 1994)
Small, Ian, Oscar Wilde Revalued (Buckinghamshire, 1993) Oscar Wilde: Recent Research (Greensboro, 2000)
Smith II, Philip E., and Michael S. Helford, Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks (New York and Oxford, 1989)
Sox, David, Bachelors ofArt: Edward Perry Warren and The Lewes House Brotherhood (London, 1991)
Speedie, Julie, Wonderful Sphinx (London, 1993)
Stanford, W.B., and R.B. McDowell, Mahaffy: A Biography of an Anglo-Irishman (London, 1971)
Stokes, John, In the Nineties (Hemel Hempstead, 1989)
Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Oxford, 1996)
Sturgis, Matthew, Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography (London, 1998)
Symonds, John Addington, Memoirs, edited by Phyllis Grosskurth (London, 1984) Sexual Inversion (New York, 1984)
Symons, A.J.A., Essays and Biographies (London, 1969)
Symons, Arthur, Memoirs (London, 1975)
Troubridge, Laura, Life Among the Troubridges, edited by Jacqueline HopeNicholson (London, 1966)
Von Eckardt, Wolf, Sander L. Gilman and J. Edward Chamberlain, Oscar Wilde's London (London, 1987)
Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out (London, 1990)
Weintraub, Stanley, Reggie: A Portrait of Reginald Turner (New York, 1965)
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture ofDorian Gray, edited by Donald L. Lawler (New York and London, 1988)
Works: Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Centenary Edition (Glasgow, 1999)
Letters, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (London, 2000)
Wilde, Oscar, and others, Teleny (London, 1986)
Winwar, Frances, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties (1940)
Wortham, H.E., Oscar Browning (London, 1927)
Yeats, W.B., Autobiographies (London, 1950)
Notes
Abbreviations
Ellmann: Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York, 1988)
Letters: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert
Hart-Davis (London, 2000)
Works: Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Centenary Edition (Glasgow, 1999)
May 1895
`crowded to suffocation': Illustrated Police Budget, 1 June 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File compiled by Jonathan Goodman (London, 1988), page 128.
`You'll dine your man in Paris': Stuart Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried (London, [1912]), page 459.
`eagerly scanning the faces': Illustrated Police Budget, in The Oscar Wilde File, pages 128-130.
`It is the worst case', `Shame': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 464.
`And I?': the Star, 27 May 1895.
`It is perhaps in prison': Letters, page 651.
,this tomb': Letters, page 656.
`scarlet threads': Letters, page 706.
`The two great turning points': Letters, page 732.
Wonder and remorse
`Oxford is the capital': Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde (Michigan, 1959), page 26.
`much too long': G.T. Atkinson, `Oscar Wilde at Oxford', Cornhill Magazine, volume LXVI, number 395 (May 1929), page 559.
`moonlike': Atkinson, `Oscar Wilde at Oxford', page 559.
`singularly mild': Ellmann, page 75.
`He did not come': Atkinson, `Oscar Wilde at Oxford', page 563.
`like a man': Ellmann, page 75.
`a Celebrity': Davis Coakley, Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Irish (Dublin, 1995), page 22.
sex-awakening': Frank Harris, My Life and Loves (New York, 2000), pages 4-5.
`sentimental friendships': Barbara Belford, Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius (London, 2000), page 29.
`There was one boy': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 19.
the romantic medium of': Philip E. Smith II and Michael S. Helford, Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks (New York and Oxford, 1989), page 115.
`that strange and to us revolting perversion': Coakley, Oscar Wilde, page 156.
`These things are so repugnant': W.B. Stanford and R.B. McDowell, Mahaffy: A
Biography of an Anglo-Irishman (London, 1971), pages 156-157.
`As to the epithet unnatural': Coakley, Oscar Wilde, page 157.
`my old pupil Mr Oscar Wilde of Magdalen College': Richard Pine, The Thief o f Reason (Dublin, 1995), page 125.
`my first and my best teacher': Letters, page 562.
`who has the most Greek': Letters, page 42.
`left leg is a Greek poem': Atkinson, `Oscar Wilde at Oxford', page 563.
`Greek sensuous delicate lips': Letters, page 50.
`a beautiful boy': Wilde, `Historical Criticism in Antiquity', in Ellmann, page 1.
`White says old Wilde': Shane Leslie, Memoir of Sohn Edward Courtenay Bodley (London, 1930), pages 24-25.
`who leaves foolish letters': diary of J.E.C. Bodley, 4 December 1875, in Ellmann, page 59.
`this psychological question': Letters, page 27.
`is charming': Letters, page 40.
`Ah God, it is a dreary thing': Oscar Wilde, manuscript of unpublished poem, Clark Library, Los Angeles.
`I had been taught': John Addington Symonds, Memoirs, edited by Phyllis Grosskurth (London, 1984), page 128.
`divert my passions': Symonds, Memoirs, page 135.
`I was very much pained': Ellmann, page 58.
`dear Eva': `The Diner-Out', A.J.A. Symons, Essays and Biographies (London, 1969) page 161.
`an exquisitely pretty girl': Letters, page 29.
`two sweet years': Letters, page 71.
`something of mine': Letters, page 107.
`a cloak to hide his secret': Works, page 438.
Tea and beauties
`It is a dreadful thing': from a conversation with Edgar Saltus, Christie's, Th
e Prescott Collection: Printed Books and Manuscripts, New York, 6 February 1981, page 200.
`a very pleasant, handsome, young fellow': Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections, edited by E.H. Mikhail (London, 1979), volume I, page 30.
`By early train': diary of Lord Ronald Gower, 4 June 1876, in H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde (London, 1976), page 19.
`I came down here on Monday': Letters, page 21.
`Life's aim': Works, page 497.
`dallying in the enchanted isle': Letters, page 28.
`a charming little fishing lodge': Letters, page 30.
`We had a delightful day': Letters, pages 34-35.
`I saw a great deal of Arthur May': Letters, page 36.
`the bloom and vitality': Dublin University Magazine, July 1877, in Ellmann, page 83.
`A counted number of pulses': Walter Pater, Studies in the History o f the Renaissance, in Michael Patrick Gillespie, `Ethics and Aesthetics in The Picture o f Dorian Gray', in Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, edited by C. George Sandulescu and Colin Smythe (Gerrards Cross, 1994), pages 143-144.
`might possibly mislead': Robert Aldrich, The Seduction o f the Mediterranean (London, 1993), page 76.
`All flames are pure': George Ives materials, 26 February 1894, Humanities Research Center (HRC), Austin, Texas.
,an early call': Letters, page 59.
`timid and afraid': Vincent O'Sullivan to A.J.A. Symons, 26 May 1937, in Vincent O'Sullivan, Some Letters to A.Q.A. Symons (Edinburgh, 1975).
`a Philistine like you': Leslie, Memoir o fjohn Edward Courtenay Bodley, page 17. `extreme aesthete': New York Times, 20 June 1882, in Ellmann, page 84.
`my blue china': Atkinson, `Oscar Wilde at Oxford', page 562.
`When a young man says': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 40.
`the absolute stupidity': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 40.
`A fair slim boy': Works, page 775.
`rose-red youth': Works, page 29.
`Youth! Youth!': Works, page 31.
`the mere fact of youth': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 79.
`confession': Father Sebastian Bowden to Oscar Wilde, 16 April 1878, in Symons, Essays and Biographies, page 169.
`Mr Soddington Symonds': H. Montgomery Hyde, The Other Love (London, 1970), page 101.
`As a Catholic': Father Sebastian Bowden to Oscar Wilde, 16 April 1878, in Pine, Oscar Wilde, page 22.
,this untidy but romantic house': Letters, page 85.
`tea at Oscar Wilde's': Laura Troubridge, Life Among the Troubridges, edited by Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson (London, 1966), page 152.
`his strange appearance': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 257.
`discovered Mrs Langtry': Ellmann, page 266.
`There is only one thing in the world': Works, pages 18-19.
`Anyone could have done that': Boris Brasol, Oscar Wilde: The Man - The Artist (London, 1938), page 183.
`a supper party the night before': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 14.
`And many a maiden will mutter': `A verse on the Grosvenor Gallery', The Oscar Wilde File, page 9.
`Maudle': Golnitz, `The Artist's Studio', in Gary Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde (New York, 1994), page 58.
`I am the original of Maudle': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 40.
`My attitude': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 40.
`a very clever play': Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L. Gilman and J. Edward Chamberlain, Oscar Wilde's London (London, 1987), page 180.
`the utterly utter': Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, 1881, in Frances Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties (1940) page 65.
`a curious toadstool': Ellmann, page 161.
`Fancy Portrait': Belford, Oscar Wilde, page 89.
`Aesthete of Aesthetes': Punch, 25 June 1881, in Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde, page 59.
`The cover is consummate': Robert Sherard, The Life q f Oscar Wilde (London, 1911), pages 172-173.
`a volume of echoes': Sherard, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, pages 172-173.
`poems are thin': Hesketh Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde (Middlesex, 1960), pages 59-60.
`terror and misery': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 275.
`advise a separation': R. Miles to Oscar Wilde, 1881, Clark Library.
`bored you': Letters, page 89.
`a poet's face': John Stokes, `Wilde the Journalist', The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, edited by Peter Raby (Cambridge, 1997), page 77.
`a very charming time': Letters, page 101.
A little in love
`Men marry': Works, page 46.
`a good marriage': Lady Wilde to Oscar Wilde, in Joy Melville, Mother of Oscar (London, 1999), page 145.
`distressed beyond words': Letters, page 82.
`I am so glad': Letters, page 82.
`Alfred Milner': Letters, page 83.
`become very close': Letters, page 82.
`I want to see you': Letters, pages 82-83.
`Charlotte': Letters, page 82.
`a wonderful young Irishman': `My Oscar', unpublished papers of Violet Hunt, in Robert Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', Texas Studies in Language and Literature, volume XXI, number 3 (fall 1979), page 401.
'Letitia's young men!': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 401.
Botticelli by Burne Jones': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre- Raphaelites', page 397.
`In ten minutes': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 401.
`slip of a girl': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 397.
`big lusty fellow': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 401.
`The Bernhardt': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 402.
`fine, true voice': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 402.
`Beautiful women like you': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre- Raphaelites', page 402.
`We will rule the world': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 403.
`and a little in love': Hunt, `My Oscar', in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 405.
`the sweetest Violet': Letters, page 89.
`really in love with me': diary of Violet Hunt, 25 February 1891, in Belford, Oscar Wilde.
,as nearly as possible escaped': Violet Hunt, The Flurried Years (London, 1926), page 168, in Belford, Oscar Wilde, pages 78 and 327.
`a single white Eucharist': `My Oscar', unpublished papers of Violet Hunt, in Belford, Oscar Wilde, pages 79 and 327.
,the brutality of strong lights': Eric Lambert, Mad With Much Heart (London, 1967), page 155.
a most amusing description': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library, Los Angeles.
`Lady Wilde has sold': Joyce Bentley, The Importance of Being Constance (London, 1983), page 32.
'0. W. came yesterday': Letters, page 221.
`Grandpa, I think': Merlin Holland, The Wilde Album (London, 1997), page 112.
`By the by, Mama': Ellmann, page 234.
`There are some lives': Otho Holland Lloyd to Carlos Blacker, 13 January 1901, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History, London, 10 and 11 June 1986.
`a tragedy': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.
`Two women cousins living': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.
`she could not say': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 27 May 1937, Clark Library.
`I shall always think': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.
`at my insistence': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.
`A most intense': Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 61.
Nothing but my genius
`Strange that a pair': Ellmann, page 164.
`I am not exactly pleased': Ellmann, page 158.
`disappointed with the Atlantic': Ellmann, page 158.
`lashed to the bowsprit': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 51.
`nothing to declare but my genius': Ellmann, page 160.
`I stand at the top': Letters, page 126.
`Caricature is the tribute': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 53.
`sepulchral': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 53.
`womanish': Newport Mercury and Weekly News, 22 January 1882, in Mary Warner Blanchard, Oscar Wilde's America (New Haven and London, 1998), page 10.
`mamma's boy': New York Times, 24 January 1882, in Blanchard, page 10.
`neat, delicate and arched': Newark Daily Advertiser, 31 January 1882, in Blanchard, page 10.
`Is he marine': Boston Evening Transcript, 4 February 1882, in Blanchard, page 11.
`epicene': New York Times, 21 January 1882, in Ellmann, page 178.
`fatuous fool': Oscar Cargill, `Mr. James's Aesthetic Mr. Nash', Nineteenth-Century
Fiction, volume XII, number 3 (December 1957), pages 180-181.
`undecided': Ellmann, page 179.
`Where is she?': Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 78.
`pallid and lank': Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 3 January 1882, in Blanchard, page 13.
`act effeminately': George Chauncey, Gay New York (New York, 1994), page 33.
`many pallid': Tribune, 9 January 1882, in Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 80.
`young men painting': Washington Post, 22 January 1882, in Blanchard, page 13.
`What a little Ganymede': Letters, page 124.
absorbed the Whitmanesque': Philadelphia Press, 19 January 1882, Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 47.
`calamite': Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (New York, 1981), page 283.
`high towering love': John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (New York, 1984), page 183.
`The chief value': Pall Mall Gazette, 25 January 1889, in Gary Schmidgall, Walt Whitman: A Gay Life (New York, 1998), page 294.
`There is something so Greek': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 47.
`Oscar Wilde has expressed': J.M. Stoddart to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1882, in Schmidgall, Walt Whitman, page 286.