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Wilde Quotes

nomad_earthling — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:50:51 GMT

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
De Profundis, 1905

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What Would Oscar Wilde Think?

darkchoqlit477 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:23:20 GMT

What would Oscar Wilde think about the current state of the arts and of culture?

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Wilde Relatives/Genealogy

patrickking — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:17:53 GMT

Hi, I've just found this tribe and haven't had much of a chance to look around. Yet I assume this is a good place to find folks who are wild about Wilde. Ok, strike that.

My father's mother's maiden name is Wilde, and my 87 year old aunt just informed me that we're related to Oscar. Not sure why I hadn't heard it sooner. I've searched a bit for some genealogy regarding the man online with little success.

If anyone has details on his descendants in America I'd greatly appreciate it.

thanks

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A new book about me

bosie — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:21:07 GMT

I am so very pleased in this renewed interest in my life; hopefully this book will go a long way to correcting many of the inaccuracies that so many people have been eager to speak and believe about me. Most importantly, however, it is to contain a selection of my poetry, which has been quite inexplicably out of print for quite some time.
Yours,
Alfred Douglas

Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and Greatest Work by Caspar Winterman

‘His [Winterman’s] knowledge of Lord Alfred Douglas is second to none.’– Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde

Caspar Winterman’s eagerly awaited and highly controversial biography of Lord Alfred Douglas sets out to defend Oscar Wilde’s beloved ‘Bosie’ from over a century of false accusations, lies and misinformation.
By directly engaging with the source of these attacks – Wilde’s De Profundis – upon which most previous biographies have been based, Caspar Wintermanns is able to show that this was a work written in the depths of despair while Wilde was incarcerated in gaol, being passionate, cruel and deeply untruthful.
Wintermanns proves that, far from being a rakish homme fatale, Alfred Douglas was in fact a supportive and kind lover who worshipped the playwright and whose life was destroyed by both those who loved and hated the ostentatiously homosexual Wilde.

Accompanied by a long overdue anthology of Douglas’ poetry, Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work is a revealing and moving representation of a tragically misunderstood poet.

There is more information at:
www.peterowen.com/pages/non...ouglas.htm

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The Importance of Being Earnest

ReinaDeHaviland — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:01:34 GMT

I just received a copy of Oscar Wilde's "The importance of being earnest". This is one of the funniest things to ever come on the English speaking stage. It is a work of genius and has incessant and unrivalled humour. The word play is evident from the title down to the most unimportant lines uttered by the butler. The scenario is a comedy of errors and the intrigues and misunderstandings on the stage produce comic scene after comic scene. The Algernon figure is the archetype of a fin de siecle dandy and the presentations of Gwendolyn and Cecily, though funny, hold power and intellect. This is a delightful diversion and I enjoyed it immensely.

I really love this quote from Lady Bracknell,"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."

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Oscar Wilde - The Center SF

boyelektric — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:50:52 GMT

I saw somewhere that there was some sort of Oscar Wilde group that meets at The Center (gay & lesbian) in san francisco. I think it was on saturdays. Does anyone know anything about this ? interested in going ?

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Dorian -a new musical

SnapesMistress — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:26:40 GMT

anyone seen this show yet?
Was apparently in NY, and is now being done by a group here in LA-

http://www.dorianthemusical.com/intro.html

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Oscar Wilde auction

Sat, 30 Oct 2004 06:40:21 GMT

!! It's over sadly, but it's neat to look through the stuff that was auctioned off.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041029/ap_en_ce/oscar_wilde_auction

http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotResultsDetailList.jsp?event_id=27019&sale_number=L04414

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The Complete...

Spartakeith — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:32:26 GMT

My compy of the Complete Short Stories of O.W. was greviously injured through exposure to some unknown liquid (probably water) (make that HOPEFULLY water) in my car.

Just a quick venting to people who can commiserate.

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Off Topic-Register to Vote online

SnapesMistress — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:30:26 GMT

If you have moved since the last election you took part in, or have never registered, or have had a change of name-
Don't let any of those things keep you from being heard on Nov 2nd!
Many states cut off date to register to participate in elections is 15 days prior to the election date.

The DNC has provided an online voter registration form that you can fill out, print, sign, and mail.
The whole process takes about 5 minutes depending on your connection.

Even if you do not want to register as a Democrat, you can use this link and select other parties.

This year its our age group, and especially women, that are expected to have the smallest turn out-be heard!
Every vote counts!

electionimpact.votenet.com/dnc/

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Bay Area Only - Earnest in Orinda

MrDarcy — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:28:57 GMT

The Importance of Being Earnest is being performed in Orinda by CalShakes.

It's gotten great reviews, and the only day I can make it is closing day - this Sunday, 9/5 at 4pm.

Is anyone else going to this?

Does anyone else want to go?

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A thought on Oscar, my father, and the Ballad of Reading Gaol

bosie — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:33:32 GMT

It sounds rather conceited, I know, but I have often thought that part of my father’s distorted grievance in all this business was caused by jealousy. It never occurred to me at the time, but I believe my father really was fond of me, and I think he sensed somehow that, with the horrible heartlessness of youth I did not appreciate him as he really was, or felt himself to be. I probably showed him (God forgive me) that I thought him rather stupid in comparison with my brilliant friend. I was a spoilt and selfish beast in those days, I know only too well. Did I perhaps unconsciously wound the feelings of my poor ‘Papa’?

The thought which has only recently occurred to me is a terrible one. Did my father really love me all the time, as I certainly loved him before he turned against me, and was he only doing what Oscar says in his great Ballad all men always do, killing the thing he loved? Didn’t we all three, Wilde, my father, and I, do it, more or less?

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Introductions

Andrew — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:58:08 GMT

I encourage those in the group who want to to do a paragraph or so introducing themselves. One of the highlights of a trip to London for me was getting out of the underground at Victoria station, I think, and going on an Oscar Wilde tour, of places Oscar used to visit, including the Royal Theatre, his tobacco shop, and his club. :-)

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genaolgy

ladymysti — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:07:20 GMT

according to the research oscar is my distant distant relative on my granmas side and i am a writer/poet myself!

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Happy Birthday Oscar

Jonno — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:42:31 GMT

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, born 16 October, 1854.

http://www.oscariana.net

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A Wilde Cover-Up?

obliquity — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:59 GMT

An interesting piece on Gay.com UK about Oscar's trial:
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Wilde trial was to distract from gay PM, biography claims

Gay.com UK
Monday 20 October, 2003 12:32

Victorian playwright Oscar Wilde's imprisonment was an attempt by the government to cover up the prime minister's own gay affair, according to a new biography.

Published next week, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna claims that the government's insistence that Wilde was tried and imprisoned for his homosexuality was because his lover's older brother was having an affair with the PM, the Earl of Rosebery.

Lord Alfred Douglas' father, the 9th Marquess of Queensbury, was so enraged that both his sons were having gay affairs that he threatened to uncover the prime minister's homosexuality. In a bid to prevent this, the government acted quickly to arrest Wilde and publicly humiliate both him and Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover.

“Oscar was sacrificed to save Rosebery and the Liberals,” the author of the book, which is based on unpublished diaries, told the Sunday Times yesterday.

The newspaper claims that as Queensbury came closer to outing the PM for sleeping with the older son Viscount Drumlanrig, a meeting was called by senior ministers, who thought that if they punished Wilde and Douglas Rosebery could be saved.

The book adds that the relationship between Rosebery and Drumlanrig led to the Viscount being made the PM's private secretary, and eventually a Lord.

However, the Viscount's father was continually suspicious, and openly called the PM "a Jew nancy boy", the book alleges.

The trial of Oscar Wilde scandalised Victorian Britain, where homosexuality was still illegal and considered the "unmentionable vice". He was sent to prison for gross indecency in 1895.

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