Title: The trials of Oscar Wilde
First published: 1997
Description: Following Oscar Wilde's trials for committing acts of gross indecency with men, he lost his family, his freedom and his will to live. This book sets out to examine how Victorian society could allow, or indeed, need this to happen.
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Literature and society, Gay men, Authors, Irish, Trials (Sodomy), Civilization, Homosexuality and literature, Social conditions, Irish authors, Trials (Libel), Biography, History, Wilde, oscar, 1854-1900, Male Homosexuality, Jurisprudence, Literature
Places: England, Great Britain, London
People: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR5823 .F65 1997