The Marquess Of Queensberry Wildes Nemesis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300173802
Description: The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern day boxing. The trial and two year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry's son, Lord Alfred Douglas, remains one of literary history's great tragedies. However, Linda Stratmann's riveting biography of the Marquess paints a far more complex picture by drawing on new sources and unpublished letters.