![]() Oscar Wilde foolishly initiated a private prosecution against Queensberry for libel, held on 3rd April 1895. ![]() On it was inscribed: “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite*”. Wilde’s well-publicised affair with Lord Alfred Douglas caused his father, the Marquess of Queensberry to leave his calling card at Wilde’s club, the Albemarle, on 18 February 1895. The literary output of the comic genius Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) (Figure 1), his elegant, entertaining plays, magical children’s stories, and wonderful witticisms need no reprise. “ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde Had he lived in the 21st century Oscar Wilde would not have been so cruelly punished, may have received effective treatment, and thus been spared to provide much more of his wit and elegant plays, stories and poetry. The claims for neurosyphilis are wholly inadequate a chronic middle ear infection with cholesteatoma and intracranial suppuration is here suggested as the basis of his fatal illness. ![]() ![]() After release he developed what was certified as “cerebral meningitis” in November 1900, from which he died. The literary genius of Oscar Wilde has been sullied and besmirched by his infamous entanglement with Lord Alfred Douglas for “gross indecency” leading to his subsequent imprisonment for two years. ![]()
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