499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)
The History of Literature
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Oscar Wilde's Connection to the Trials
Morris Schwab came from a very wealthy family, they were calico merchants in Manchester. He met Oscar Wilde probably through Robert Ross and Robbie Ross is who was later his literary executor. The way that Schwab has started to become better known is that some love letters that Bozy had written to him showed up in an archive in 2011 in Australia. They were not just friends, they were lovers.
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