Crucially, when the novel was published it was seen as so explicitly queer that text from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was used during Oscar Wilde’s trial as evidence of his homosexuality and supposed ...

Oscar Wilde was hardly any stranger to controversy ... he was accused of homosexuality and was even dragged into a criminal ...

In the foreword of his 2006 biography The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, author Neil McKenna writes, “Oscar Wilde lived more lives than one, and no single biography can ever compass his rich and ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest brought an Oscar Wilde poem for appraisal The poem ... In 1899, the reputed professor was present for the Dreyfus trial and was writing articles about it when he met ...