Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores
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Queensbury vs Alfred Douglas
He brought this on himself. Is his his wife, his lawyers, everybody urges him not to sue lord queensbury. But it is that kind of part of the the huboris the the narsicism, that he thinks he's just above it all. He thought that he was taking on queensbury on the grounds of his own relationship with alfred douglas. I mean, that was indeed what was affronting queensby and and was all that reallya queensbury knew of wilds.
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