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To Robert Ross, 1 Apr. 1897 (version 2)

Episode 24 of the Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) podcast, hosted by ciesse, titled "To Robert Ross, 1 Apr. 1897 (version 2)" was published on March 6, 2025 and runs 9 minutes.

March 6, 2025 ·9m · Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895) by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ciesse This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship, and writes "prose poems" to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, that will eventually be read out in court. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, newspapers, biographies, and other texts in the public domain. For a complete collection of Wilde's letters, please see "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde," (2000) edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. - Summary by Rob Marland Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898) by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ciesse This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, Wilde describes the cruelties of prison life. At this time Wilde was writing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and the poem is a frequent topic in his letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and publisher, Leonard Smithers. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, biographies, collections of letters to Douglas and Ross, and other texts in the public domain. For a complete collection of Wilde's letters, please see "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde," (2000) edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. - Summary by Rob Marland Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900) by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ciesse This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter about prison reform to the editor of the Daily Chronicle. For most of the last three years of his life Wilde lived in Paris, but his letters also describe visits to Switzerland and Italy. The collection ends with one of Wilde's last surviving letters, which he wrote from his deathbed to beg a friend for money to pay his medical bills. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, biographies, collections of letters to Ross, and other texts in the public domain. For a complete collection of Wilde's letters, please see "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde," (2000) edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. (Rob Marland) Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1876 - 1916) LibriVox Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen.(Summary from Wikipedia)
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