by Neil McKenna
`hearty salutations': Ellmann, page 167.
`Walt Whitman will be in': Ellmann, page 167.
`I have come to you': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 47.
`If you are willing': Schmidgall, Walt Whitman, page 286.
"`thee and thou" terms': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, pages 46-47.
`We had a jolly good time': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 46.
`Everyone who knew Whitman': Harrison Reeves, Mercure de France, 1 June 1913.
`he just resented': George Ives, 19 November 1893, HRC.
`I have the kiss': George Ives, 6 January 1901, in John Stokes, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Oxford, 1996), page 69.
`Unto thy martyrdom': Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 70.
`There is none': Symons, Essays and Biographies, page 177.
`too effusive': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 71.
`Among the "many young men"': Ellmann, page 200.
`Have you read the Saturday': Ellmann, page 200.
`My friends criticised': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 64.
`the true poet': Ellmann, pages 212-213.
`I send you the young Greek': Letters, page 176.
`a lovely bas-relief': Letters, page 228.
`by a thin-faced youth': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 83.
`America is a land': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 81.
Freedom from sordid care
`The proper basis for marriage': Works, page 163.
`Are you in love?': Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 180.
`Miss Ward Howe': Violet Hunt, 21 November 1882, in Secor, `Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 399.
`praised Constance immensely': Lady Wilde to Oscar Wilde, 1882, in Melville, Mother q f Oscar, page 181.
`I think she would kill you': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, 28 February 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 187.
`At present I am deep': Letters, pages 204-205.
`mes premieres fleurs': Letters, page 207.
`cet individu': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 85.
`honey-coloured': Letters, page 211.
`suppurating syphilitic sores': Kevin H.F. O'Brien, `Robert Sherard', English Literature in Transition, volume XXVIII, number 1, page 10.
`moonlit meanderings': Letters, page 210.
`How could I refuse': Letters, page 210.
`Priapus was calling': H. Montgomery Hyde, Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde (London, 1962), pages 53-54.
`The only reflection': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 3 June 1937, in Belford, Oscar Wilde, page 117.
`He is grown': Laura Troubridge, July 1883, in Troubridge, Life Among the Troubridges,
page 164.
`His amber-coloured hair': Richard Le Gallienne, The Romantic '90s (London, 1951), page 141.
`You will think': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, May 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 188.
`I don't believe that he means': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, June 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 189.
`wherever she went': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, June 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 190.
`If the man were': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, June 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 190.
`this is his way': Otho Holland Lloyd to Nellie Hutchinson, June 1883, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 189.
`an epicene youth': Ellmann, page 240.
`You know everybody says': Ellmann, page 236.
`I am afraid you and I': Ellmann, page 244.
`I told the Atkinsons': Ellmann, page 244.
`though decidedly extra': Letters, page 221.
`Such stupid nonsense': Letters, page 272.
`Prepare yourself': Letters, page 222.
`shaking with fright': Letters, page 221.
`three good proposals': Bentley, The Importance of Being Constance, page 33.
`Grandpapa will, I know, be nice': Letters, page 232.
`I am so dreadfully nervous': Letters, page 222.
`I won't stand opposition': Letters, page 222.
`My father': Emily Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 30 November 1883, Clark Library.
`I am intensely pleased': Melville, Mother of Oscar, pages 191-192.
`growing quite rich': Letters, page 224.
`The best work in literature': Letters, page 265.
`I hear that Oscar's fiancee only has £400 a year': Laura Troubridge, 1884, in Secor,
`Aesthetes and Pre-Raphaelites', page 399.
`as nearly as possible escaped': Hunt, The Flurried Years, page 168. `is not a matter for affection': Works, page 559.
`A hundred and thirty thousand pounds!': Works, page 409.
`a very nice, pretty, sensible girl': Lady Wilde to Mrs Knott, February 1884, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 194.
`What causes him some uneasiness': Emily Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 6 December 1883, Clark Library.
`He had an interview in chambers with Mr Hargrove': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 27 May 1937, Clark Library.
`I think it likely': Emily Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 17 December 1883, Clark Library.
`should be made to understand': Emily Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 17 December 1883, Clark Library.
The marriage cure
`LADY BRACKNELL: To speak frankly': Works, page 410.
`He certainly had been very much': Lord Alfred Douglas, The Autobiography q f Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 1929), pages 59-60.
`force and depth of character': Bentley, The Importance of Being Constance, page 87.
`I'm going to be married to': Letters, page 224.
`mystical': Letters, page 225.
`Madonna Mia': Works, page 836.
`a fair slim boy': Works, page 755.
`Impervious as Cyprian was': Andre Raffalovich, A Willing Exile (London, 1890), page 20.
`It was not love': Raffalovich, A Willing Exile, page 22.
`marrying that girl': Ellmann, page 235.
`can't help liking him': Letters, page 221.
`She scarcely ever speaks': Louise Jopling, Tventy Years of My Life 1867-1887 (London, 1925), page 79.
`It is horrid': Letters, page 224-225.
`I am with Oscar when': Letters, page 225.
`My darling love': Constance Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, in Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, pages 126-127.
`all very pretty indeed': Letters, pages 21-22.
`a very good age': Works, page 368.
`When I have you': Constance Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, in Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 127.
`certainly the most immoral': W.H. Auden, Forewords andAftervords, inAn Improbable Life, selected by Edward Mendelson (London), pages 307-308.
`prayers, struggles, all means used': Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Philadelphia, 1902), page 57.
`was the excitation': Symonds, Memoirs, page 136.
`there had been connection': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page 164.
`I sought out a scarlet woman': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology q f Sex, page 74.
`used to dream': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page-88.-
`If only you were a boy': Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 264.
`the boyish appearance': Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde, page 106.
`another means': Oscar Wilde and Others, Teleny (London, 1986), pages 86-87.
`the slender lithesomeness': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 87.
`Could I but have felt': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 87.
`youthful': Anne Amor Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde (London, 1983), page 59.
`You say you love': Alan Sheridan, Andre Gide: A Life in the Present (London, 1998), page 129.
`Physicians are often strongly tempted': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology o fSex, page 198.
'I felt the necessity': Symonds, Memoirs, page 135.
`recommended cohab
itation': Symonds, Memoirs, page 152.
`great mistake - perhaps the great crime': Symonds, Memoirs, pages 184-185.
I married without passion': Symonds, Memoirs, page 185.
`found, to his disappointment': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology q f Sex, page 88.
`Bachelors are not fashionable': Works, page 556.
`There is only this much': Sherard, Life of Oscar Wilde, page 233.
`No woman': Sherard, Life of Oscar Wilde.
Against nature
`The only way to behave to a woman': Works, page 371.
`a silly and thoroughly characteristic letter': Ellmann, page 251.
`stopped and rifled': Brasol, Oscar Wilde, page 176.
`It's so wonderful': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 3 June 1937, Clark Library.
`I pointed out': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 3 June 1937, Clark Library.
`Such a great event': in Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds (London, 1964), pages 94-95.
`annulee et tendre': in Ellmann, page 252.
`Of course I need not tell you': Letters, page 229.
`the most splendid acting I ever saw': Letters, page 228.
`the show-places of the Paris Inferno': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 94.
`the saddest daughters of joy': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 96.
`The criminal classes': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 95.
`Stretched out in every posture of pain': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, pages 96-97.
`the favourite spectacle': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 96.
`the breviary of decadence': introduction to J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature, translated by Robert Baldick (London, 1959), page 13.
`Bible and bedside book': Ellmann, page 252.
`a sudden storm of wind and rain': Letters, page 227.
`Dear Sir, the book': Letters, page 524.
`taking up the volume': Works, page 96.
`After a few minutes': Works, page 98.
`progressively less manly': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 17.
`In the days when he had belonged': Huysmans, Against Nature, pages 22-23.
`a young scamp of sixteen or so': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 80.
`has a supple figure, sinewy legs': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 110.
`as blunt-witted and brutish': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 112.
`yearning for her': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 111.
`rough, athletic caresses': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 112.
`timid and appealing': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 116.
'This last book of Huysmans': Morning News, 20 June 1884.
`The whole book seemed to him': Works, page 97.
An ideal wife
`What nonsense people talk': Works, page 131.
`I am thinking of becoming': Letters, page 230.
`What should be the distinguishing': on display at Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts, British Library, London, 2000.
`the divine joy of sacrifice': Melville, Mother of Oscar, pages 65-66.
`A woman has a strong tendency': Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 69.
`It is better to have loved and lost': Coakley, Oscar Wilde, page 178.
`more of a sedative': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 58.
`succeeded in accomplishing': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, pages 168-169.
`Did you see the Wildes': diary of Laura Hope, 8 June 1886, in P. Jullien, `The Wildes at No 16 Tite Street', London Magazine, volume IX, page 70.
`Mr and Mrs Oscar Wilde to tea': diary of Laura Troubridge, 8 July 1884, Life Among the Troubridges, page 169.
`Oscar Wilde and his wife': Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge, Letters of Engagement, edited by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster (London, 2002), page 38.
`Mrs Oscar Wilde is utterly devoid': Marie Corelli, in Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde, page 73.
`Burne-Jones and': Marion Mainwaring, Mysteries ofParis (London, 2001), page 45.
`so cold and undemonstrative outwardly': Ellmann, page 246.
`said during dinner': Hope and Troubridge, Letters of Engagement, page 115.
`simply revolting': Hope and Troubridge, Letters of Engagement, page 117.
`a pretty young woman': Le Gallienne, The Romantic '90s, page 144.
`She was sentimental': Arthur Ransome, Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London, 1912), page 36.
`I knew a case': Ada Leverson, in Julie Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx (London, 1993), pages 87-88.
`How passionately I worship': Ellmann, page 246.
`really very fond': Letters, page 785.
`There is only one thing': Coakley, Oscar Wilde, page 178.
`She could not understand me': Letters, page 785.
`Ennui is the enemy!': Letters, page 1131.
`Women are always on the side of morality': Works, page 469.
`the only way a woman': Works, page 80.
`Then turning to my love I said': Works, page 867.
`When I married': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 284.
`Ugliness I consider a malady': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 57.
`I can sympathise': Works, page 42.
`Pity! Pity has nothing to do with love': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 285.
`many men find': Andre Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite (Lyon, 1896), page 125, translated by Sian Jones.
`must love indeed': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 131.
`Don't talk to me of the other sex': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 270.
`Oscar had no illusions': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 31 May 1937, Hyde Collection.
`Act dishonourably, Robert': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 31 May 1937, Hyde Collection.
`glutted their lust': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 183.
`Mr Wilde told me': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 185.
`Mr Wilde spoke several times': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 185.
`A woman's passion': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 272.
`Get hence, you loathsome Mystery!': Works, page 882.
`Her thighs were bare': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 80.
`I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty': Works, page 82.
Playing with fire
`Marriage is a sort of forcing-house': Robert Hichens, The Green Carnation (London, 1961), page 30.
`Dear and Beloved': Letters, pages 241-242.
`best Olympian': Ellmann, page 265.
`My dear Philip': Letters, page 239.
`Yes. I always call': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 125.
`charmed. 1have a very vivid': Letters, page 266.
`Harry, why did you let me': Letters, page 267.
`I find the earth as beautiful as the sky': Letters, page 267.
`you have the power': Letters, page 268.
`Do you know him?': Letters, page 268.
`There is no sin': Timothy d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest (London, 1970), page 77.
`What is Harry doing?': Letters, page 269.
`What is your real ambition in life': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 5.
`Nothing is good in moderation': Ellmann, page 268.
`Enough is as bad as a meal': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 171.
`Moderation is a fatal thing': Works, page 498.
`Does it all seem a dream, Harry?': Letters, page 269.
`How much more poetic': Pearson, The Life o f Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`You too have the love': Letters, page 272.
`not the fruit of experience': Ellmann, page 139.
`I wanted to eat of the fruit': Letters, page 739.
`most fiery moment of ecstasy': Letters, page 272.
`Strangely enough': Letters, page 272.
`To be master of these moods is exquisite': Letters, page 272.
`To drift with every passion till my soul': Works, page 864.
`an unknown land full of strange flowers': Letters, page 272.
`Let us live like Spartans': Letters, page 274.
`Come at 12 o'c on Sunday': Letters, page 276.
&n
bsp; `Dear Douglas, I have lost your note': Letters, page 281.
`We must have many evenings together': Letters, page 281.
`I hope you and Osborne are reading hard': Letters, page 281.
`young Oxonians are very delightful': Letters, page 278.
Mad and coloured loves
`Love is all very well': Works, page 286.
`Oscar's star has been low': Ellmann, page 281.
`Give me the luxuries': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 36.
`A word from you': Letters, page 280.
`In mad and coloured loves': Ian Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued (Buckinghamshire, 1993), page 131.
`consistency is the last refuge': Oscar Wilde, `The Relation of Dress to Art', in The Artist as Critic, edited by Richard Ellmann (Chicago, 1982).
`the best writer in Europe': Jean Graham Hall and Gordon D. Smith, Oscar Wilde: The Tragedy of Being Earnest (Chichester, 2001), page 33.
`epicene youth': Truth, 18 July 1883.
`I have never seen anything like it before': Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man? (London, 1988), pages 136-137.
`on the increase': H. Montgomery Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal (London, 1976), page 17.
`The increase of these monsters': Hyde, The Other Love, page 120. `a criminal confederacy': Hyde, The Other Love, page 129.
`a disgrace to legislation': John Addington Symonds to Charles Karns Jackson, 18 December 1892, in John Addington Symonds, Letters, edited by Herbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters (Detroit, 1969), page 791.
`The only way to get rid of a temptation': Works, pages 28-29.
`the face of Puck': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, pages 354-355.
`a rather pathetic-looking little creature': Douglas, Autobiography, page 70.
`had known Ross': new preface to Frank Harris and Lord Alfred Douglas, The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde (London, 1925), pages 49-50.
`copping for a steamer': Rupert Croft-Cooke, Feasting with Panthers (London, 1968), page 264.
`flattery laid on with a trowel': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 72-73.
Poets and lovers
`How much more poetic': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`highest form of literature': Letters, page 265.
`too busy to lecture': Letters, page 304.