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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

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by Neil McKenna


  `Infamous St Oscar of Oxford': Letters, page 1041.

  `It was a magnificent': Letters, page 842.

  `He enjoyed the trees': Letters, page 842.

  `full of penitence': in Ellmann, page 535.

  `calculated to exasperate': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 432.

  `Reading Prison had already': Letters, page 844.

  `some sweet biscuits': Letters, page 847.

  `I pretended not to see': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 352.

  `I breakfast tomorrow': Letters, page 869.

  `dragged': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 3 June 1937, Clark Library.

  `dear sweet Robbie': Letters, page 858.

  `terrible position of isolation': Letters, page 858.

  `I adore this place': Letters, page 869.

  `I went into the water': Letters, page 866.

  `at least I know': Letters, page 877.

  `English hypocrisy': Ernest Dowson to Arthur Moore, June 1896, in Dowson, Letters, page 369.

  `Cher Monsieur Le Poete': Letters, page 883.

  `The other day I met Oscar': Ernest Dowson to Conal O'Riordan, 10 June 1897, in Dowson, Letters, pages 384-385.

  `There is a fatality': Letters, page 901.

  `wonderful and charming': Letters, page 907.

  Your friend, and mine': Letters, page 908.

  `a more wholesome taste': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, pages 335-336.

  `the architect of the moon': Letters, page 1075.

  `a huge and fat person': David Sox, Bachelors ofArt: Edirard Perry Warren and The Leaves House Brotherhood (London, 1991), pages 139-140.

  `first hyacinth since Douglas': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, page 141.

  `that Aubrey Beardsley': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, pages 140-141.

  `Two loves have I': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, page 141.

  `revolting': Letters, page 858.

  `terrified about Bosie': Letters, page 865.

  `My dear Boy': Letters, page 872.

  `dear Reggie Cholmondeley': Letters, page 874.

  `Don't think I don't love you': Letters, page 880.

  `I must give up': Letters, page 885.

  `dear honey-sweet boy': Letters, page 898.

  `At present it is impossible': Letters, page 901.

  `long indictment': Letters, page 908.

  `a long letter': Letters, page 909.

  `He has really left me': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, 30 June 1897, in CroftCooke, Bosie, page 156.

  `I don't even know': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, in `The Constant Nymph'.

  `The meeting was a great success': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 110.

  `Yes I saw Bosie': Letters, page 934.

  `own Darling boy': Letters, page 932.

  Two outcast men

  `Friendship is far more': Works, page 1242.

  `I cannot stay': Letters, page 935.

  `returning to his vomit': Carlos Blacker to Otho Holland Lloyd, 21 December 1900, in Maguire, `Oscar Wilde and the Dreyfus Affair', Victorian Studies, volume XLI, number 1.

  `You are really wrong': Letters, page 936.

  `a hotel of absurd prices': Letters, page 949.

  `freedom from morals': Letters, page 1112.

  `My going back to Bosie': Letters, page 942.

  `But I cannot help it': Letters, page 947.

  `I love him, and have': Letters, page 948.

  `We have a lovely villa': Letters, page 950.

  very beautiful': II Pungolo parlamentare, 9-10 October 1897, in Masolino d'Amico,

  `Oscar Wilde in Naples', Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, page 78.

  `potent witch': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 158-159.

  `I intend to winter here': Letters, page 947.

  `The museum is full': Letters, page 958.

  `We are together': Letters, page 952.

  `He is usually': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, pages 331-332.

  `My definition of a straightforward': Robert Ross to Ada Leverson, in Ellmann and Epsey, Oscar Wilde: Two Approaches, page 42.

  `The poem suffers': Letters, page 956.

  `A prison wall was round us born': Works, page 887.

  `we go to Capri': Letters, page 962.

  alcoholic habits': Robert Ross, `Statement of Evidence in His Case Against Douglas', Clark Library.

  `in your own mysterious style': Lord Alfred Douglas to George Ives, 22 October 1897, Clark Library.

  `It is very curious': Letters, page 955.

  `very witty and talkative': Letters, page 976.

  `mal vu': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 115-116.

  `Very secret': E. Neville-Rolfe to Lord Rosebery, 30 December 1897, in `A Note on Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas and Lord Rosebery', in English Language Notes, volume XXIII, number 1 (1985), page 43.

  `Question - has he seen': Constance Wilde to Carlos Blacker, 26 September 1897, in J. Robert Maguire, `An Oscar Wilde Autograph Envelope at Auction', Antiquarian Book Monthly (October 2000), page 31.

  `I have today written': Letters, page 955.

  `I forbid you to see': Letters, page 994.

  `How can she really imagine': Letters, page 955.

  `Robbie has written me': Letters, page 951.

  `As you remade my life': Letters, page 950.

  `When you wish to talk': Letters, page 963.

  `wretched £3 a week': Letters, page 955.

  `a public scandal': Oscar Wilde to More Adey, 20 November 1897, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 115-116.

  `Women are so petty': Letters, page 955.

  `After all, no charge': Letters, page 979.

  `If I were living': Letters, page 979.

  `I said at once that your wife': Letters, page 989.

  `For More and Robbie': Letters, page 990.

  `Do you think that if: Letters, page 991.

  `Do, if possible, try': Letters, page 995.

  `perfectly capable': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 167.

  `starved out': Robert Ross, `Statement of Evidence in His Case Against Lord Alfred Douglas', Clark Library.

  `It is proposed to leave me': Letters, page 996.

  `Moral people': Letters, page 996.

  `very cultivated': Letters, page 1008.

  `I hear you have': Leonard Smithers to Oscar Wilde, 26 January 1898, MS Walpole, Bodleian Library.

  `The annoyance of living': Lord Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde, 7 January 1898, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 231.

  `It is, of course, the most bitter': Letters, page 1029.

  `I am so glad!': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 7 December 1897, in Ellmann, page 554.

  A joy-song

  `JACK: He seems to have': Works, page 381.

  `A poem gives one': Letters, page 1022.

  `I hear he had missed': Letters, page 1019.

  `frightfully upset by this': Letters, page 1027.

  `He has, as you know': Letters, page 1035.

  `exquisite': Letters, page 1035.

  `more or less demanding': Letters, page 1038.

  `He says that he loved': Letters, page 1038.

  `I have a sort of idea': Letters, page 1039.

  `I kept on saying': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 346.

  `not a serious one': Constance Wilde to Robert Ross, 12 March 1895, Clark Library, in Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde, pages 159-160.

  `brought about in the first place': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.

  `a broken heart': Vyvyan Holland to Frank Harris, 9 May 1926, HRC.

  `telegraphic tears': Vyvyan Holland to Frank Harris, 9 May 1926, HRC.

  `It is really awful': Letters, page 1055.

  `You will have heard': Letters, page 1054.

  `Alcohol taken in sufficient': Belford, Oscar Wilde, page 281.

  `Absinthe stands alone': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 75.

  `seen Oscar over and over again': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 8 March 1937, Clark L
ibrary.

  `never been exactly sober': Stuart Merrill, `Some Unpublished Recollections', Adam International Review, numbers 241-243 (1954), page 12.

  `waiters, coachmen, sellers': Jean Joseph Renaud, `The Last Months of Oscar Wilde in Paris', Clark Library.

  `like a superhuman burst': Nancy Erber, `The French Trials of Oscar Wilde', pages 586-587.

  `Like dear St Francis of Assisi': Letters, page 1145.

  `I tell everybody not to': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 56.

  `a fat old prostitute': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 305.

  `when I was hot': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, no date given, in Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, page 54.

  `I know that there is no beggar': George Bernard Shaw to Lord Alfred Douglas, 18 April 1938, in Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence, edited by Mary Hyde (London, 1982), pages 30-32.

  `A wretched inn-keeper': Letters, page 1101.

  I am so sorry': Letters, page 1102.

  `I had a fearful letter': Letters, page 1061.

  `Because I have written': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 367.

  `the end of life': Oscar Wildes Oxford Notebooks, pages 141-142.

  `the honey of romance': Works, page 864.

  `To drift with every passion': Works, page 864.

  `by chance': Letters, page 1025.

  `all French lily and English rose': Letters, page 1077.

  `His upper lip': Letters, page 1066.

  `jonquil-like in aspect': Letters, page 1074.

  `most beautiful mouth I know': Letters, page 1083.

  retourne a son vomissement': Ellmann, pages 562-563.

  `He grows dearer to me daily': Letters, page 1031.

  `a born Catholic in romance': Letters, page 1076.

  `No cheque this morning': Letters, page 1073.

  `Bosie is being very angelic': Letters, page 1057.

  `Bosie is now inseparable': Letters, page 1081.

  `He apparently goes': Letters, pages 1057-1058.

  `Bosie has no real': Letters, page 1081.

  `He is devoted': Letters, page 1066.

  `grown tired of the Florifer': Letters, page 1075.

  `Bosie turned up': Letters, page 1070.

  `Boys, brandy, and betting': Letters, page 1192.

  `I cannot bear being alone': Letters, page 1068.

  `cold shoulder': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, pages 184-185.

  `realise that he was ruining': O'Sullivan, Some Letters to A.IA. Symons, page 45.

  `the Circle of the Boulevards': Letters, page 1064.

  `Edmond de Goncourt': Letters, page 1056.

  `Edmond is very smart': Letters, page 1058.

  `I don't wish to be horrid': Letters, page 1078.

  `quite charming': Letters, page 1157.

  `to smoke a cigarette': Letters, page 1074.

  `A meeting with Leon': Letters, page 1078.

  `a most passionate faun': Letters, page 1104.

  `the harvest-moon': Letters, page 1106.

  `beautiful boy of bad character': Letters, page 1108.

  `snub-nosed little horror': Letters, page 1110.

  `the sweetest': Letters, page 1144.

  `a little Dionysiac': Letters, page 1107.

  `Your little friend Alphonse': Letters, page 1107.

  `these gutter perverts': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 204.

  `dear little absurd Robbie': Letters, page 1088.

  `It is quite true': Letters, pages 1105-1106.

  `As regards to my marrying': Letters, page 1116.

  `the fishing population': Letters, page 1112.

  `two special friends': Letters, page 1113.

  `Yes, even at Napoule': Letters, page 1119.

  `joy-song': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 281.

  `one of the noble army': Letters, page 1114.

  `a very pretty Italian boy': Letters, page 1112.

  `charming fellow': Letters, page 1116.

  `It is very pretty': Letters, page 1128.

  `a beautiful young actor': Letters, page 1132.

  `He is a silent, dull person': Letters, page 1132.

  `to try and find a place': Letters, page 1139.

  `I love them all': Letters, page 1179.

  `most sweet': Letters, page 1179.

  `friends': Letters, page 1179.

  `But I met some': Letters, page 1179.

  `I am glad you are enjoying': Lord Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde, early May 1900, in

  Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 231-232.

  `dark and gloomy': Letters, page 1181.

  `who knows nothing': Letters, page 1185.

  `I have given up Armando': Letters, page 1182.

  `It was the first time': Letters, page 1186.

  `with tears and one kiss': Letters, page 1187.

  `In the mortal sphere': Letters, page 1187.

  `at the age of a flower': Letters, page 1040.

  `You must not think': Letters, page 912.

  `ebbing out in squalor': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 41.

  `I give it as my firm opinion': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 117.

  `be swept with poignant anguish': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 54.

  `a looking out': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 155.

  November 1900

  `Can I see one of the fathers': Rupert Croft-Cooke, `Oscar Wilde Discoveries', Books and Bookmen (February 1974), page 40.

  `almost hopeless': Letters, page 1219.

  `I dreamt I was supping': Letters, page 1213.

  `My wallpaper and I': Ellmann, page 581.

  `very painful': Letters, page 1219.

  `There was the so-called': Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions o f Oscar Wilde, page 23.

  `I have never heard': Letters, page 1220.

  `I am miserable': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, December 1900, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 128.

  `more lives than one': Works, page 892.

  I was a man': Letters, pages 737-738.

  `I dreamed of him': Douglas, Sonnets, page 38.

  `And alien tears': Works, page 896.

  `Yes. I have no doubt': Letters, page 1044.

  Index

 

 

 


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