Title: Louis Wilkinson
Content: scholarship to Radley College, one of England's leading public schools. At Radley, Wilkinson became fascinated by the case of Oscar Wilde, who in May 1895 was convicted of perjury after two trials and imprisoned for two years. On release in May 1897 Wilde went to France, and by March 1898 was living in Paris, in the Hotel d'Alsace. Wilkinson discovered this address and in December 1898 wrote to the exile, ostensibly to ask for permission to mount a dramatised version of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Wilde responded warmly, and over the following eighteen months the two exchanged a number

Title: Oscar Wilde
Content: renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform.

Title: Oscar Wilde
Content: hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote "De Profundis" (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46. Oscar Wilde was born at 21

Title: Eric Bentley
Content: the life of Oscar Wilde. He won an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre from the American Theatre Wing in 2006 and a Robert Chesley Award in 2007. Bentley became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City. He turned 100 on September 14, 2016. He has written numerous books of theatre criticism. In addition, he edited "The Importance of Scrutiny" (1964), a collection from "Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review", and "Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968" (1971). His most-produced play, "Are You Now Or Have You

Title: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Content: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde is a 1983 novel by Peter Ackroyd. It won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1984. The novel is written in the form of a diary which Oscar Wilde was writing in Paris in 1900, up to his death. The diary itself is completely fictional, as is the detail contained, although the events and most of the characters (such as the characters of Lord Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross and the Earl of Rosebery and his incarceration, at Pentonville, later Reading) are real. In this diary he looks back at

Question: Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life, in "France?
Answer: Sebastian Melmoth