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370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)

The History of Literature

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Oscar's House of the Back, I Ell, Sir William Wilde

i'm wondering if we could go back to the very young wild which i don't think we've talked about at all. What kind of childhood didhe have? Was an amazingly rich and stimulating childhood. His his parents were extraordinary people. Both. We she was an amazing she described herself as a poetess, but she wrote sort ofn inflammatory nationalist verse. She was soof one of the great figures of irish nationalism in the years immediately after the famine. I meanb both literally and physically.

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