October 2000 Issue Gawain Douglas Gawain Douglas Looks at Three Books About Wilde Table Talk By Thomas Wright (ed) Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius By Barbara Belford Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece By Joan Schenkar LR
September 1983 Issue A N Wilson Gray’s Elegy In the Dorian Mode: A Life of John Gray: 1866–1934 By Brocard Sewell LR
August 2016 Issue Matthew Sturgis An Ideal Husband? Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew By Eleanor Fitzsimons The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family By Emer O’Sullivan LR
January 1986 Issue Jonathan Keates Suburban Decadence More Letters of Oscar Wilde By Rupert Hart-Davis (ed) LR
May 2003 Issue Thomas Hodgkinson A Handcuff? Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde By Merlin Holland (ed) LR
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