The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap Page 20
Epilogue
On May 19, 1897, Oscar Wilde was released from prison. He spent the last three years of his life in France in a self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles under a pseudonym. Although he was penniless, he was able to pursue the uninhibited pleasures that he had been denied in England.
He died of meningitis on November 30, 1900, with his friend Reggie Turner at his bedside.
“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.”
OSCAR WILDE
