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Oscar Wilde in Dieppe

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Conderl and Sickert2 received without enthusiasm the news of Oscar Wilde’s coming arrival at Dieppe on his release from prison. What attitude was to be taken with regard to the outlaw? In discussing the matter with me Conder said:

Portraits of a Lifetime. Translated and edited by Walter Clement (London: J.M. Dent, 1937) pp. 97–100. Editor’s title.

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  1. Charles Conder (1868–1909), English artist. Wilde much admired his work. See references to him in The Letters of Oscar Wilde; A. E. John, ‘Wilde and Conder’, Golden Horizon, ed. Cyril Connolly (New York: British Book Centre, 1953) pp. 321–5

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  2. John Rothenstein, The Life and Death of Conder (London: Dent, 1938) passim.

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  3. On Wilde’s life in Berneval see André Germain, ‘Wilde à Berneval’, La Revue Européenne, I (December 1923) 37–40

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  4. Léon Lemonnier, ‘Oscar Wilde en exil, d’après des documents nouveaux’, La Grande Revue, (January 1931) 373–98

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  5. Gerald Hamilton, ‘Wilde at Berneval’, The London Magazine, VII (June 1967) 73–7.

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E. H. Mikhail

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Blanche, JÉ. (1979). Oscar Wilde in Dieppe. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_24

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