"Oscar Wilde Bookshop The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors. It was founded by Craig Rodwell on November 24, 1967 as the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. Initially located at 291 Mercer Street, moved in 1973 to Christopher Street and Gay Street in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. It is named after author Oscar Wilde. The bookstore closed on March 29, 2009 citing the Great Recession and challenges from online bookstores. As a member and vice president of the Mattachine Society, Rodwell sought to make Mattachine more visible to gays and society at"
"die where the writer of his childhood had also died. L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had"
"and producing books based on the researches of her late husband into Irish folklore. Lady Wilde contracted bronchitis in January 1896 and, dying, asked for permission to see Oscar, who was in prison. Her request was refused. It was claimed that her ""fetch"" (i.e. her apparition) appeared in Oscar's prison cell as she died at her home, 146 Oakley Street, Chelsea, on 3 February 1896. Willie Wilde, her older son, was penniless, so Oscar paid for her funeral, which was held on 5 February at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. A headstone proved too expensive and she was buried anonymously"
"L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to"
"the parvis in the front of the Church of Saint‑Germain‑des‑Prés by the end of the Second Empire in 1871, and stopped there, sparing the maze of narrow streets between "" and the river. The quarter was also the temporary home of many musicians, artists and writers from abroad, including Richard Wagner who lived for several months on "". The writer Oscar Wilde spent his last days in the quarter, at the small, run-down hotel called the Hotel d'Alsace at , near the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He wandered the streets alone, and spent his money he had on alcohol. He wrote"
"organising his defence. Wilde was left bankrupt; his assets were seized and sold at auction to pay the claim. Queensberry then sent the evidence collected by his detectives to Scotland Yard, which resulted in Wilde being charged and convicted of gross indecency under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 and sentenced to two years' hard labour. His health and reputation destroyed, Wilde went into exile in France. Queensberry died on 31 January 1900. Ten months later, Oscar Wilde died at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris. Queensberry has been portrayed by a number of actors in later dramatisations of the Wilde-Alfred"
"according to France, is God's secret name and means ""the child who wanders."" He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris. On 31 May 1922, France's entire works were put on the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"" (Prohibited Books Index) of the Catholic Church. He regarded this as a ""distinction"". This Index was abolished in 1966. In 1877, France married Valérie Guérin de Sauville, a granddaughter of Jean-Urbain Guérin a miniaturist who painted Louis XVI, and with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1881 (dec. 1918). France's"
"Oscar Wilde's tomb The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb. In 1908, Oscar Wilde's literary executor Robert Ross chose Jacob Epstein for the commission of the tomb at a cost of two thousand pounds, which had been anonymously donated for this purpose. Later, in a publication of letters between Ada Leverson and Ross in 1930, ""Letters to the Sphinx"", the anonymous donor was revealed to be Helen"
"England and exile in other European cities. He wandered the streets alone, intoxicated and penniless. He died in the shabby Hotel d'Alsace (now called L'Hôtel) on the rue des Beaux-Arts on the Left Bank, after pointing at the wallpaper and declaring ""One of us has got to go."" (The same hotel was later the residence of another writer in Exile, Jorge Luis Borges). Wilde was first buried in the Cemetery of Bagneux outside the city; in 1909 his remains were transferred to Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Between the wars, Paris was home to the major French publishing houses and literary journals,"
"troupe of wandering actors, whom he served in the capacity of playwright. He was known under the nom de plume of Desforges, which also was the name he had on the stage. He married an actress; the two were welcomed in Saint Petersburg, where they spent three years (1779 to 1782). After his return to Paris he dedicated himself completely to literature. Desforges was one of the first to avail himself of the new facilities afforded under the Revolution for divorce and remarriage. His memoirs are said to have been undertaken at the request of Madame Desforges. He died in"
"Battles"", Johnson noted that Cravan must have been out of training. Cravan's pride in being the nephew of Oscar Wilde produced hoax documents and poems which Cravan wrote and then signed ""Oscar Wilde"". In 1913 he published an article in his self-edited review ""Maintenant"" claiming that his uncle was still alive and had visited him in Paris. ""The New York Times"" published the rumour, even though Cravan and Wilde never met. In 1915 Cravan held an exhibition of his paintings at the gallery Bernheim Jeune in Paris under the pseudonym Èdouard Archinard. After arriving in New York in 1916, Cravan"
"resumed using the name Carstairs in February 1922. Carstairs lived a colourful life. She usually dressed as a man, had tattooed arms, and loved machines, adventure and speed. Openly lesbian, she had numerous affairs with women, including Dolly Wilde—Oscar Wilde's niece and a fellow ambulance driver from Dublin with whom she had lived in Paris—and a string of actresses, most notably Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead, and Marlene Dietrich. During World War I, Carstairs served in France with the American Red Cross, driving ambulances. After the war, she served with the Royal Army Service Corps in France, re-burying the war-dead, and"
"attempts, none successful; she emerged from one nursing-home stay with a new dependency on the sleeping pill paraldehyde, then available over-the-counter. In 1939 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and refused surgery, seeking alternative treatments. The following year, with the Germans approaching Paris, she fled to England. She died aged 45 in 1941, of ""causes unascertainable"", according to the coroner's inquest—possibly the cancer or possibly a drug overdose. Wilde's longest relationship, lasting from 1927 until her death, was with openly lesbian American writer Natalie Clifford Barney, who was host of one of the best-known Parisian literary salons of the 20th"
"him money – a meagre three pounds a week. During the latter part of 1897, Wilde and Douglas lived together near Naples for a few months until they were separated by their families under the threat of cutting off all funds. Wilde's final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), on rue des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. ""This poverty really breaks one's heart: it is so ""sale"" [filthy], so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Pray do what you can"" he wrote to his publisher. He corrected and published ""An Ideal Husband"" and ""The Importance of Being Earnest"","
"his common-law wife (and promptly presenting himself and confessing to a policeman) on 29 March 1896; on 17 June, Wooldridge was sentenced to death and returned to Reading for his execution, which took place on Tuesday, 7 July 1896—the first hanging at Reading in 18 years. Wilde was released from prison on 18 May 1897 and he promptly went to France, never returning to Britain. He died in Paris, at the age of 46, on 30 November 1900. While in France, surviving on an allowance from his wife of three pounds a week—deliberately meagre to discourage the sort of high"
"remained together into their elderly ages for more than 40 years only to marry in 2000. She lived the majority of her years in Nice, France. The last few in Gagne-sur-mer, France. She died in a hospital in Grasse, France. Early in her career she was mostly a singer and eventually became an actress. She most notably played the role of Madame Lajoie in François Truffaut's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner, ""Day for Night"" (1973) (originally billed as ""La Nuit américaine"", France) for which Truffaut was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film"
"she and Wilde remained on good terms. After Wilde's imprisonment, Constance changed her and her sons' last name to Holland to dissociate themselves from Wilde's scandal. The couple never divorced and though Constance visited Oscar in prison so she could tell him the news of his mother's death, she also forced him to give up his parental rights and later, after he had been released from prison, refused to send him any money unless he no longer associated with Douglas. Constance died on 7 April 1898, five days after a surgery conducted by Luigi Maria Bossi. According to ""The Guardian"","
"home consisting of two separate wings joined by a dining room, which they called ""Villa Trait d'Union"", the hyphenated villa. Brooks also spent much of the year in Italy or travelling elsewhere in Europe, away from Barney. They remained devoted to one another for over fifty years. Dolly Wilde was the niece of Oscar Wilde (whom Natalie Barney had met as a little girl) and the last of her family to bear the Wilde name. She was renowned for her epigrammatic wit but, unlike her famous uncle, never managed to apply her gifts to any publishable writing; her letters are"
"and condemned to twelve years' imprisonment. He escaped after a few months and left the country, to return in 1840. He died at Gleizé on 10 August 1853, the name of Louis Charles de France being inscribed on his tomb until the government ordered its removal. Another pretender was Reverend Eleazar Williams, a Mohawk-born Protestant missionary, and an advocate for land rights of Native Americans. While at the house Francis Vinton, William began shaking and trembling upon seeing a portrait of Antoine Simon, a member of the sans-culottes, claiming the portrait has ""haunted me, day, and night, as long as"
"French authorities ""and"" the OAS itself. After inquiries, he contacts an Englishman (whose true name is never disclosed), who meets with Rodin and his two principal deputies in Vienna, and agrees to assassinate de Gaulle, but who demands a total of US$500,000 (approximately $ million as of 2016). They also decide to call him a code name, ""The Jackal."" The triumvirate of OAS commanders then take up residency on the top floor of a Rome hotel guarded by a group of ex-legionnaires to avoid the risk of being captured or killed like Argoud. The remainder of Part One describes the"
"émigré. Doumer was fatally wounded. Farrère wrestled with the assassin until the police arrived. Claude Farrère Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, Lyon – 21 June 1957, Paris), was a French author of novels, many of which are based in exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki. One of his novels, ""Les civilisés"" (""The Civilized""), about life in French colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Goncourt for 1905. He was elected to a chair at the Académie française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Paul Claudel, partly thanks to lobbying efforts by Pierre Benoit (novelist). Initially,"
"Oscar Wilde. During his journeys, he meets a similar immortal born of the same incident and bearing his same powers, a dwarf by the name of Simon Culp, who becomes his mortal enemy. During all of the Shade's escapades, he is pursued by the Ludlows, whom he kills by the dozens. He is nearly killed by one Ludlow, Marguerite Croft, when he falls in love with her in Paris during the thirties. She tries to kill Shade with poison, but is unsuccessful. Shade survives and is forced to kill Marguerite when she confesses that though she loves him, her loyalty"
"Vyvyan Holland Vyvyan Holland, OBE (3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967), born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde in London, was a British author and translator. He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril. According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, ""Son of Oscar Wilde"", Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one. After 1895, when Wilde was convicted of the charge of ""gross indecency"" and imprisoned, Constance changed her surname, and those of their sons, to Holland. She took the boys"
"France, living in Vence for the rest of their lives while traveling throughout Europe. Squire and Mars were great friends of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas while living in France, and the writer's poem ""Miss Furr and Miss Skeene"", believed to be the first such work to use the word ""gay"" to describe homosexuality, is meant to describe the couple. Edna Boies Hopkins was another friend of both Squire and Mars throughout their lives. The couple went into hiding in Grenoble during World War II, but returned to their home, La Farigoule, afterwards. Squire died of heart failure there"
"political intrigue set in the fictitious Latin American republic of Costaraguay. Altogether Nord authored nearly eighty novels. He also wrote non-fiction. Between 1946 and 1949, Nord published a three-volume account of Free French intelligence actions during the Second World War under the title ""Mes Camarades sont morts"" (My Comrades are Dead), it won the Grand Prix Vérité. ""L'intoxication"" (The Deception), an analysis of the clandestine war of secret services, appeared in 1971. In 1957, Nord moved from France to the principality of Monaco, where he lived until his death. Pierre Nord Pierre Nord, real name André Léon Brouillard (15 April"
"""Achilles"", the head of the French police. With the help of his colleagues he always succeeds through various adventures. San-Antonio adventures have been translated into different languages, such as Italian, Romanian and Russian. A few have been translated into English: Apart from San-Antonio Frédéric Dard wrote a great deal of novels under various other pseudonyms, such as Frederic Antony, Verne Goody, William Blessings, Cornel Milk, Frederic Charles or L'Ange Noir, to give only a short list. There is no monograph on San-Antonio or Frédéric Dard in English. Frédéric Dard Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard, 29 June 1921 in Bourgoin-Jallieu,"
"Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France, he got the idea for a gay memorial in the United States. He returned briefly to Washington, D.C., in 1985 and, then, to San Francisco where he sold Ford cars and once again became heavily involved in gay rights causes and the fight for adequate HIV/AIDS education and treatment. In 1986, Matlovich felt fatigued, then contracted a prolonged chest cold he seemed unable to shake. When he finally saw a physician in September of that year, he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Too weak to continue his work at the Ford dealership,"
"under yet another pseudonym, probably to distance himself from his more mainstream work. The ""Lucien Waléry"" pseudonym happens to meld with the name of ""Charles Auguste Varsavaux"", a photographer who took over the Walery Paris studio after Ostroróg and died on 20 April 1935. He also produced erotica, possibly with a view to cashing in on the similarity of the name. He married Joyce Audrey Reed Fowke (1877-1930) in 1897 in Chelsea. They had four children. Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg died on 22 February 1929. In 2005, the National Portrait Gallery, London, mounted an exhibition entitled ""Victorian Women"", featuring the"
"from 1895 to 1897. While he was there, he wrote ""De Profundis"", which was published in 1905. After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", based on his experience of an execution carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there. It was first published in 1898 under the pseudonym C.3.3, Wilde's erstwhile cell number. Other authors lived in and around Reading. Jane Austen attended Reading Ladies Boarding School, based in the Abbey Gateway, in 1784–86. Mary Russell Mitford lived in Reading for a number of years and then spent the"
"in 1718, following his incarceration at the Bastille. Its origin is unclear. It is an anagram of ""AROVET LI"", the Latinized spelling of his surname, Arouet, and the initial letters of ""le jeune"" (""the young""). According to a family tradition among the descendants of his sister, he was known as ""le petit volontaire"" (""determined little thing"") as a child, and he resurrected a variant of the name in his adult life. The name also reverses the syllables of Airvault, his family's home town in the Poitou region. Richard Holmes supports the anagrammatic derivation of the name, but adds that a"
"the novel to be technically mediocre, saying that the conceit of the plot had guaranteed its fame, but the device is never pushed to its full. The 1891 census records the Wildes' residence at 16 Tite Street, where he lived with his wife Constance and two sons. Wilde though, not content with being better known than ever in London, returned to Paris in October 1891, this time as a respected writer. He was received at the ""salons littéraires"", including the famous ""mardis"" of Stéphane Mallarmé, a renowned symbolist poet of the time. Wilde's two plays during the 1880s, ""Vera; or,"
"man following in the footsteps of Cravan across France, Spain, USA, Mexico and finally Salina Cruz. Arthur Cravan Arthur Cravan (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd on 22 May 1887, Lausanne, Switzerland – disappeared 1918) was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet,"
"Oliver Herford Oliver Herford, a writer, artist, and illustrator, was born in Sheffield, England on December 2, 1860 (not 1863, as is widely stated) to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver's father, Brooke, was a Unitarian minister who moved the family to Chicago in 1876 and to Boston in 1882. Oliver attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1877 to 1879. Later he studied art at the Slade School in London and the Académie Julien in Paris. Afterward, he moved to New York, where he lived until his death. He has been called ""The American Oscar Wilde""."