3-057-575 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Title page from "Oscar Wilde and Myself" by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1914. 'with photogravure portrait of the author and thirteen other portraits and illustrations - also fac-simile letters'. The relationship between Irish playwright and author Wilde (1854-1900) and his younger lover, poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), was the subject of a scandal and court case. Wilde was sent to prison for 'sodomy', and Douglas converted to Catholicism. [John Long, London, 1914]