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499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)

The History of Literature

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The Secrets of Oscar Wilde's Criminal Activity

One of Schwab's partners was Gerald Hamilton, who went on to be memorialized as Mr. Norris in Christopher Isherwood's "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" Do you think there are secrets somewhere in the British archives of intelligence operations that might shed additional light on this if you could access it? I think there are definitely files. One thing that I did consider was whether Schwab had targeted Wilde and actually more accurately whether he had targeted Lord Alfred Douglas because being an aristocrat, Douglas would actually have been a much more important black male target than a poet even if he was famous.

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