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Constance’s wedding ring designed by Oscar. Which is the odd one out? Dirk Bogarde in”Victim” (1961) about a gay married lawyer subject to the blackmailer’s charter which was the law that convicted Wilde. This film along with the two Wilde films (1960) and the Wolfenden Report (1957) helped foster a cultural reappraisal of masculinity in the 1960s leading to the repeal of the law. In his Impressions of America, Oscar Wilde said that, "Salt Lake City contains only two buildings of note, the chief being the Tabernacle, which is in the shape of a soup-kettle." He had originally said this in newspaper interviewers in America: for instance in the Denver Tribune where he added that the tabernacle was the most purely dreadful building he ever saw. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnt7DrZu-Ol/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnss-PbrW_M/ Self portrait by the artist who painted Dorian Gray. Original artwork for the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray. The men who variously defended Wilde in court; met him outside prison; tended him on his deathbed; gave him the last rites; and designed his burial monument. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck67xdLp23t/ Oscar, Sarah Bernhardt, and Lillie Langtry, all photographed in exactly the same place against the same background at the studio of Napoleon Sarony. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck67Fq5JJO3/ Bosie taller than Oscar. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck66vKLpK1n/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck38rNvp0UN/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3hegVrSTf/ Oscar’s handprint. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3gwCvLqll/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3gsOZrkAv/ Rarer Oscar. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3e0wfrgZc/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3emFvr0pf/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca80u8BMd-A/ See that neoclassical building to the left of the church? That’s the Mechanics’ Institute
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