Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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Furnell, John. The Stringed Lute: An Evocation in Dialogue of Oscar Wilde (London, 1955)
Gagnier, Regenia. Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford CA, 1986)
Gide, André. Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam (Paris, 1910)
Included in translation in: Stuart Mason’s Oscar Wilde: A Study (London, 1905); Ernest La Jeunesse et al. (see below); André Gide Oscar Wilde (London, 1951).
Goodman, Jonathan. The Oscar Wilde File (London, 1988)
Useful collection of contemporary newspaper accounts about Wilde.
[Grolleau, Charles]. The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Paris, 1906)
First but somewhat inaccurate account of the trials.
Harris, Frank. Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (London; New York, 1916)
Often unreliable. Many anecdotes presented in dialogue form. Critical of Douglas. But a ‘techicolour’ account by one who knew Wilde personally. The 1918 reprint is important for Shaw’s appendix ‘My Memories of Oscar Wilde’.
Harris, Frank and Lord Alfred Douglas. New Preface to ‘The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde’ (London, 1925)
Destined as a true preface to the above but published separately by Douglas as an ‘apology’ from Harris.
[Hitchens, Robert]. The Green Carnation (London, 1894)
Thinly disguised satire on Wilde/Douglas relationship. Published anonymously at the time but reprinted in 1949 with Hitchens’ introductory note.
Holland, Merlin. The Wilde Album (London, 1997)
The most comprehensive of the pictorial biographies with around 250 illustrations, 30 of which were published for the first time.
Holland, Merlin. Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: the Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (London, 2003)
The full text of the Queensberry libel trial from a previously unknown contemporary transcript. Three times as long as anything previously published.
Holland, Vyvyan. Oscar Wilde (London, 1960)
The first of the pictorial biographies. The first edition has superb gravure plates.
Holland, Vyvyan. Son of Oscar Wilde (London, 1954)
An account of how the scandal affected Wilde’s family.
Hopkins, R. Thurston. Oscar Wilde: A Study of the Man and His Work (London, 1913)
Housman, Laurence. Echo de Paris (London, 1923)
Reconstruction in dialogue of author’s last meeting with Wilde and Ross in Paris café.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (London, 1948; new enlarged edition, 1962)
A so-called ‘verbatim’ edition of the proceedings of the three trials the first of which is now superseded by Holland’s Irish Peacock.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath (London, 1963)
First detailed account of Wilde’s last five years from imprisonment to death.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde (London, 1976)
Now superseded by Ellmann. Over a quarter of the book is taken up with the trials.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Annotated Oscar Wilde (London, 1982)
Selections from the works. Annotations partly literary, partly biographical, partly helpful, partly pedantic.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. Lord Alfred Douglas: A Biography (London, 1984)
Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell. Oscar Wilde (London, [1907])
Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell. Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences (London, [1912])
Jackson, John Wise (ed.). Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde (London, 1991)
Selection of Wilde’s journalism. Pick of the plums from the ‘Reviews’ and ‘Miscellanies’ vols of the 1908 Collected Works.
Jullian, Philippe. Oscar Wilde (Paris, 1967; Trs. London, 1967)
‘Gossipy rehearsal of Wilde’s career as wit and pederast’ said a reviewer. Unscholarly and fairly lightweight.
Kenilworth, Walter Winston. A Study of Oscar Wilde (New York, 1912)
A semi-mystical approach.
Kohl, Norbert. Oscar Wilde: Leben und Werk in Daten und Bildern (Frankfurt, 1976)
Many unusual photographs illustrating Wilde’s life and works.
Kohl, Norbert. Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel (Heidelberg, 1980; Trs. Cambridge, 1989)
‘Advanced’ but very readable textual criticism by highly reliable German scholar.
Kronenberger, Louis. Oscar Wilde (Boston; Toronto, 1976)
La Jeunesse, Ernest; Franz Blei and André Gide. Recollections of Oscar Wilde Trs. Percival Pollard (Boston; London, 1906)
Langlade, Jacques de. Oscar Wilde: écrivain francais. (Paris, 1975)
Lemonnier, Léon. La Vie d’Oscar Wilde (Paris, 1931)
Interesting for view of Wilde’s downfall and exile in French press.
Lemonnier, Léon. Oscar Wilde (Paris, 1938)
Lewis, Lloyd and Henry J. Smith. Oscar Wilde Discovers America [1882] (New York, 1936)
McCormack, Jerusha (ed.). Wilde the Irishman (New Haven & London, 1998)
A collection of essays continuing the pioneering work by Coakley.
McKenna, Neil. The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (London, 2003)
Gay interpretation of Wilde’s entire life. Contains much new source material but also much unfounded conjecture.
MacLiammóir, Micheál. The Importance of Being Oscar (Dublin, 1963)
Classic dramatisation of Wilde’s life by incomparable Irish actor.
Mason, Stuart [Christopher Millard]. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality (London, 1908)
Reproduction of correspondence and criticisms occasioned by publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray together with a bibliography of all the foreign editions published.
Mason, Stuart [Christopher Millard]. Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried (London, 1912)
First accurate account of the three trials. Superseded by Hyde who reproduces the facts in more readable form.
Mason, Stuart [Christopher Millard]. Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement (Dublin, 1920)
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar (London, 1994)
Comprehensively researched biography of Oscar’s mother.
Merle, Robert. Oscar Wilde (Paris, 1948; revised 1995)
Merle, Robert. Oscar Wilde ou la destinée de I’homosexuel (Paris, 1955)
Presents the homosexual as suicidal hero.
Mikhail, E. H., (ed.). Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections 2 vols (London, 1979)
First hand recollections of Wilde.
Morley, Sheridan. Oscar Wilde: An Illustrated Biography (London, 1976)
Competent and well written but little or no new research.
Murray, Douglas. Bosie (London, 2000)
Most recent biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, largely sympathetic with some interesting new material.
Nassaar, Christopher S. Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde (New Haven; London, 1974)
Unconventional approach but, some said, too far-fetched in places.
O’Brien, Kevin. Oscar Wilde in Canada: An Apostle for the Arts (Toronto, 1982)
Beautifully researched account of the Canadian part of Wilde’s American tour. Also valuable for the reconstructions of the lectures.
O’Sullivan, Vincent. Aspects of Wilde (London, 1936)
Many personal reminiscences by one who knew Wilde well.
Page, Norman. An Oscar Wilde Chronology (London, 1991)
Invaluable, very detailed chronology of Wilde’s life in 100 pages.
Pearson, Hesketh. The Life of Oscar Wilde (London, 1946)
Still one of the best pre-Ellmann biographies containing much original material but infuriatingly devoid of references.
Pennington, Michael. An Angel for a Martyr. Jacob Epstein’s Tomb for Oscar Wilde (Reading, 1987)
Account of the commissioning, creation and errecting of Wilde’s tomb in Paris.
Powell, Kerry. Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge, 1990)
Questions Wilde as ‘innovative’ playwright and examines other writers’ influences.
Queens
berry, Francis Marquis of, and Percy Colson. Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas (London, 1950)
Somewhat disjointed but makes use of Queensberry family archives. Black Douglas refers to family not just to ‘Bosie’.
Raby, Peter. Oscar Wilde (Cambridge, 1988)
Concise and useful textual criticism for the general reader.
Raby, Peter (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge, 1997)
A collection of essays on the life and works by a galaxy of Wilde scholars.
Ransome, Arthur. Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London, 1912)
The first balanced and objective account, but one for which he was sued by Douglas.
Redman, Alvin. The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde: An Anthology (London, 1952)
Wilde’s epigrams grouped under subject headings. Useful but not entirely reliable either for the accuracy of the quotes or the stated sources.
Renier, G.J. Oscar Wilde (London, 1933)
Takes new liberal view of homosexuality. Attempts pseudo-scientific explanations.
Ricketts, Charles. Oscar Wilde: Recollections (London, 1932)
A sympathetic account in the form of letters by the illustrator of some of Wilde’s works.
Saltus, Edgar. Oscar Wilde: An Idler’s Impression (Chicago, 1917)
Personal recollections reproduced mainly as conversations.
San Juan, Epifanio. The Art of Oscar Wilde (Princeton, 1967)
Literary criticism.
Schmidgall, Gary. The Stranger Wilde (New York, 1994)
Wilde from a totally gay perspective. Many interesting insights and a valuable addition to the non-mainstream literature.
Schroeder, Horst. Additions and Corrections to Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig, 1989; revised and much enlarged edition 2002)
Corrects many slips made in Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde and an invaluable supplement to it.
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (London, 1902)
Sherard was the only one of Wilde’s friends on whose accounts we can more or less rely. All his books contain much first-hand and anecdotal material.
Sherard, Robert Harborough. The Life of Oscar Wilde (London, 1906)
Sherard, Robert Harborough. The Real Oscar Wilde (London, [1917])
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Oscar Wilde Twice defended from André Gide’s Wicked Lies and Frank Harris’s Cruel Libels (Chicago, 1934)
Inflammatory pamphlet attempting to defend Wilde’s reputation but in the end doing more harm than good.
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde (London, 1937)
Shewan, Rodney. Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism (London, 1977)
Weighty and heavy going in places but one of the first to credit Wilde with depth and sincerity of purpose.
Small, Ian. Oscar Wilde Revalued (Greensboro N.C., 1993)
Lists much ‘new’ material, long available to scholars but generally overlooked.
Small, Ian. Oscar Wilde Recent Research (Greenboro N.C., 2000)
A supplement to the above.
Smith, Hester Travers. Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde (London, 1924)
Smith, Philip E. and Michael S. Helfand. Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (New York; Oxford, 1989)
Part of the nouvelle vague approach to Wilde studies, looking at the early classical influences on his writing and seeing him as a serious professional writer.
Stokes, John. Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations (Cambridge, 1996)
Symons, Arthur. A Study of Oscar Wilde (London, 1930)
Tanitch, Robert. Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen (London, 1999)
An impressive listing, with casts and criticism, of Wilde’s plays as well as plays and films about him. Not comprehensive, but that would take a lifetime to compile.
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1892)
Contains the much publicised correspondence between Wilde and Whistler.
White, Terence de Vere. The Parents of Oscar Wilde (London, 1967)
Probably the best book on both Wilde’s parents to date. Maddeningly-short on source references. The Speranza material is now superseded by Melville.
Winwar, Frances. Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties (London, 1938)
Woodcock, George. The Paradox of Oscar Wilde (London, 1949)
Offered at the time as critical companion to Pearson (see above).
Wright, Thomas. Table Talk: Oscar Wilde (London, 2000)
A collection of the stories and prose-poems, which Wilde is supposed to have recounted but never committed to paper, as recalled by his contemporaries.
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The full text of De Profundis © Estate of Oscar Wilde 1962 and the four-act version of The Importance of being Earnest © Estate of Oscar Wilde 1957, are both reproduced by permission of Merlin Holland. The chronological order of Wilde’s poems was established by Prof Bobby Fong of Hope College, Michigan and is here reproduced with grateful acknowledgement to him. The texts of Wilde’s two American lectures ‘The Decorative Arts’ and ‘The House Beautiful’ were established from manuscript sources and contemporary accounts by Prof Kevin O’Brien of St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, who has kindly allowed their reproduction. The cover photography is reproduced by permission of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, as are picture numbers 5, 9, 10 and 16. All other photographs are from the Collection Merlin Holland and are reproduced by permission of Merlin Holland.
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