Laura Brennan‘s new book examines the parents and childhood of Oscar Wilde as well as his education at university both in Dublin and Oxford while looking into how Oscar’s politics, travel and aesthetic lifestyle helped create the poet, writer and playwright.
It also takes a focused look at Oscar Wilde as a husband and father, explores the events and relationships that lead to Wilde’s arrest and sentencing in 1895 and examines Wilde’s experiences as a prisoner as well as his short life after his release from prison.
Ultimately, the author argues that the real Oscar Wilde can be found in the legacy of work that he left behind, the lives of his two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan, and how his story has become important to the modern LGBTQ communities well into the twenty-first century.
Another great addition to the stacked Wildean canon.
