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The Lecture Tour of North America, 1882. —A Flagship Project— These pages document for the first time a detailed, comprehensive, and accurate record of all the dates, venues, and subjects of Oscar Wilde’s 1882 lecture tour of North America.
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23 Washington - Oscar Wilde Lecture Tour 1882
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26 New Orleans - Oscar Wilde Lecture Tour 1882
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21 San Antonio - Oscar Wilde Lecture Tour 1882
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15 Newport - Oscar Wilde Lecture Tour 1882
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Verification. Biographical account. Lewis and Smith, Oscar...
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Detailed Verification of Oscar Wilde's 1882 Lecture Tour of...
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Mar 28, 2018 · The story of Oscar Wilde's dazzling tour of America where he both found inspiration and became a true celebrity for the first time.
Aug 17, 2020 · Oscar Wilde arrived in the United States on January 3, 1882, wearing the extravagantly flamboyant clothing that would soon make him famous—lavender trousers, frilly white shirt, blue scarf, green coat trimmed with seal fur, and a turban-like hat that perched atop his shoulder-length brown hair.
Dec 28, 2014 · On December 24, 1881, Oscar Wilde sailed for America from Liverpool aboard the S.S. Arizona bound for New York. The reasons for his much-heralded visit seemed clear enough: to promote Gilbert & Sullivan’s latest operetta, Patience, while conducting a series of lectures on subjects of his own choosing.
Mar 11, 2024 · Wilde, caught off guard, imprudently declared that American papers were “full of rubbish” and that “if people read them and were satisfied with them…this must be a nation of lunatics.”. He was more composed when, on a train in Colorado, he was approached by the editor of a women’s magazine.
Jan 3, 2013 · Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America, Roy Morris, Jr.’s delightful account of the tour, sets a visitor from one realm (Wilde) careening into one that seems impossibly separate...
The Big Trip (Большое путешествие Bol'shoye puteshestviye) (simply titled Big Trip in some countries) is a Russian computer-animated film directed by Vasiliy Rovenskiy and Natalya Nilova and co-written by Madagascar writer Billy Frolick.
