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Tuesday
30 January 2001, 18.15-19.30
Merlin
Holland on
Oscar
Wilde Goes West
The American lecture tour to publicise D’Oyly Carte’s production
of Patience made Wilde a transatlantic celebrity. His encounters
with fans, hillbillies, cowboys and miners are well documented, as is
his exhortation to American matrons to embrace the Beautiful - if they
could. Now Merlin Holland, the grandson of Oscar Wilde and consultant
to the British Library exhibition, tells us more in a slide-illustrated
lecture full of surprises.
Merlin Holland’s new edition of Wilde’s letters and his illustrated
book The Wilde Album are both published by Fourth Estate.
£5.00;
£3.50 concessions
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"I have nothing to declare but my genius."
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To
book
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