Reading Gaol
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Literary Setting | Oscar Wilde | The poem deals with an actual event that occurred at Reading Gaol
: the execution of a soldier, Charles Thomas Woolridge
, for wife murder. The narrator presents himself as one of the band of... |
politics | Oscar Wilde | After time in two other institutions, OW
served the bulk of his sentence in Reading Gaol in Berkshire. During this time he was declared bankrupt, and first his mother
, then his wife Constance |
Author summary | Oscar Wilde | OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose... |
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