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Dorian Gray (1968) by Jim Dine; one of a series of prints for an illustrated edition. Rainbows didn’t become a gay symbol until Gilbert Baker’s flag design<\/a> ten years later.<\/em><\/p>\n Continuing an occasional series.<\/p>\n \u2022 “…the Public is a very curious thing; it is sometimes perverse, and even obstinate, and it has evidently made up its mind to like the plays of Mr. Oscar Wilde.” Callum at Front Free Endpaper<\/a> found a sceptical review of The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> in The Sketch<\/em> for 20th February, 1895.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Wilde’s vision of Socialism, which at that date was probably shared by many people less articulate than himself, is Utopian and anarchistic.” George Orwell<\/a>, writing in 1948, looks back at Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Oscar Wilde between Paris and Brighton<\/a>: Research at the excellent Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon blog following Wilde’s travels in the early months of 1891.<\/p>\n \u2022 Wilde Ride by Anthony Paletta<\/a>: “Oscar Wilde spent a year in the US and met the likes of Walt Whitman and Henry James.”<\/p>\n \u2022 There’s plenty of Wildeana at Pinterest<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Dorian Gray (1968) by Jim Dine; one of a series of prints for an illustrated edition. Rainbows didn’t become a gay symbol until Gilbert Baker’s flag design ten years later. Continuing an occasional series. \u2022 “…the Public is a very curious thing; it is sometimes perverse, and even obstinate, and it has evidently made up … Continue reading “Wildeana 9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,5,14,46],"tags":[4526,206,554,117,2946,395,4525,4421,4524,116,4002],"class_list":["post-13060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-gay","category-politics","category-theatre","tag-anthony-paletta","tag-charles-ricketts","tag-charles-shannon","tag-dorian-gray","tag-front-free-endpaper","tag-george-orwell","tag-gilbert-baker","tag-henry-james","tag-jim-dine","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-walt-whitman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3oE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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