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Original paragraph in
Irish Daily Independent - Wednesday, May 29, 1895
Irish Daily Independent - Wednesday, May 29, 1895
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Sunday World - Sunday, June 2, 1895
Sunday World - Sunday, June 2, 1895
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I met Wilde in his youth, says the Evening news representative, after he made his first memorable visit to America. His attire then was
eccentric, but a justification of his doctrines. No man was more perfectly, more beautifully dressed. There was not a tinge in the colors of his apparel
but completely the harmony. His long hair became him; his face was an oval, youthful, fresh; and bright with intelligence. How gross he has become!
Again I met him, sat with him at dinner the library of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. Mr Henry Irving and the
veteran journalist, Mr George Augustus Sala were also there. The assembly was a brilliant one. The occasion was the unveiling of Lord Ronald Gower’s
status of Shakespeare, the beautiful work of art which stands on the green at the front of the theatre, facing the winding Avon and the church half hidden
in the foulage. Irving and Sala made brillant speeches on the poet and the theatre, but when Wilde rose, again superbly but more rationally attired, and
delivered an address on sculpture, the assembly of artists, scholars and historians listened with suppressed breathing, and browed their heads in
acknowledgment of the man’s superiority. Wilde was in his zenith then.
The Oscar Wilde who came into the witness box at the Old Bailey to support his charge against the Marquis of Queensberry was not the
same man. Though still precise and still brillant in wit, his features had acquired a coarseness that had robbed the man of his intellectual
impressiveness.
When Wilde leaned on the real of the dock on Saturday and heard the jury, in answer to the various charges, six times repeat the word
Guilty, nothing more appealing than the hopelessness which crept into his sunken eyes have I ever looked upon. The … visibly multiplied at the man’s face,
his huge body seemed to shrink into littleness, and as the jailer touched him on the shoulder, he reeled in bewilderment.
During the first month, while on the wheel, Wilde will sleep on the plank bed, a bard board raised a few inches above the floor and
supplied with shoes — clean sheets are given to each prisoner — two rugs, and a coverlet, but no mattress. His diet will be —
During the first month, while on the wheel, Wilde will sleep on the plank bed, a bare board raised a few inches above the floor and
supplied with sheets--clean sheets are given to each prisoner--two rugs, and a coverlet, but no mattress. His diet will be--
Cocoa and bread for breakfast at 7 30.
Cocoa and bread for breakfast at 7 30.
Dinner at noon, one day bacon and beans, another soup, another cold Australian meat, and another brown flour suet puddings, with the
last three repeated twice a week, potatoes in every dinner; and tea at 5 30.
Dinner at noon, one day bacon and beans, another soup, another cold Australian meat, and another brown flour suet puddings, with the
last three repeated twice a week, potatoes with every dinner. And
After he had finished his turn on the wheel he will be put to some industrial employment, not play writing, although it might be the
most profitable for the prison de apartment, but provably post bag-making, tailoring, or merely picking of oakum. He will exercise in the open air daily
for na hour walking with the rest of his ward in Indian file, no talking allowed.
After he has finished his spell on the wheel he will be put to some industrial employment, probably post bag-making, tailoring, or
merely picking of oakum. He will exercise in the opening air daily for an hour, walking with the rest of his ward in Indian file, no talking allowed.
He will be allowed no communication with outside, except by special permission, until he has completed three months of his sentence, and
then he may write and receive one letter, and be visited for twenty minutes by three friends, but in the rising cell, separated from them, by wire binds
and in the presence of a warder. After the first letter and visit the same may be repeated at intervals of three months. But all these concessions are
dependent first upon industry and next upon conduct. The plan bed cannot be escaped from until a certain number of marls, awarded only for work done, and
in the same way letters and visits are accorded. Wilde will attend chapel every morning at 9 am, and twice on Sundays. He will be visited, if he wishes
it, by the chaplain, and as often as he likes also daily by the Governor or Deputy Governor.
He will be allowed no communication with outside, except by special permission, until he has completed three months of his sentence, and
then he may write and receive one letter, and be visited for twenty minutes by three friends, but in the visiting cell, and separated from them by wire
blinds and in the presence of a warder. After the first letter and visit the same may be repeated at intervals of three months. But all these concessions
are dependent first upon industry and next upon conduct. The plank bed cannot be escaped from until a certain number of marks, awarded only for work done,
and in the same way letters and visits are accorded. Wilde will attend chapel every morning at 9 a m and twice on Sundays. He will be visited, if he
wishes it, by the chaplain, and as often as he likes, also daily by the Governor or Deputy Governor.
In the Nineteenth Century, Wilde once wrote — The things people say of am an do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of
not value whatever. After all, even in prison a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace.
Writing in the "Nineteenth century," Oscar Wilde said: "The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public
opinion is of no value whatever. After all, even in prison a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at
peace."