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Wilde I can never forgive. You may maintain that he had a right to live his own life and, for the sake of sheer vanity, get himself into Reading Gaol. For there was no reason for his going to prison and the last thing that the British authorities wanted to do was to put him there. On the day of his arrest his solicitor received warning that the warrant would not be issued until after seven P.M., the night train for Paris leaving at 6:50 from Charing Cross. I remember still the feeling of anxiety and excitement of that day. Practically everybody in London knew what was agate.
Return to Yesterday (London: Victor Gollancz, 1931) pp. 40–5; (New York: Horace Liveright, 1932) pp. 46–50. Editor’s title.
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Notes
On Wilde’s life in Paris and his later days see Ernest Raynaud ‘Oscar Wilde à Paris’, La Mêlée Symboliste, 2e partie: 1890–1900 (Paris: Renaissance du Livre, 1920) PP. 125–45
Paul Wiegler, ‘Hotel d’Alsace’, Genius in Love and Death (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929) pp. 116–25
Cecil Georges-Bazile, ‘Les Derniers Jours d’Oscar Wilde’, La Revue Hebdomadaire, xi (28 November 1925) 387–99
André Gide, ‘The Last Days of Oscar Wilde’, Saturday Review (New York), xlii (13 June 1959) 10–12,56–7
Arthur Ransome, ‘Oscar Wilde in Paris’, T. P. ‘s Magazine (London), (June 1911) 427–35.
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Ford, F.M. (1979). I Disliked Oscar Wilde. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_29
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