The prison was immortalised by Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written during his two-year sentence for gross indecency The jail where playwright Oscar Wilde was a prisoner has been ...

An MP has called for the jail where Oscar Wilde was held to be preserved and kept open to the public. Reading Prison, which has been closed since 2013, is being sold by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

Oscar Wilde first saw the inside of a prison 13 years before he wrote De Profundis, his famous 55,000-word letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from his cell at Reading Gaol. From our morning ...

Reading Gaol prison is well known for housing poet Oscar Wilde in the 1890s It was sold to educational charity the Ziran Education Foundation in January An educational charity owned by a Chinese ...

After completing classics such as Salome, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Happy Prince, in 1895 Oscar Wilde’s literary ... she found herself in Holloway Prison, charged with assault.

He understood he was gay when he learned about Oscar Wilde If Wodehouse was a revelation ... is that you’ve been expelled.” 6. He went to prison as a teenager Fry says that as a teenager ...

Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, in his lowest moment in prison, drew a comparison of how he sank from being one of ...

The long-held theory was that Oscar Wilde succumbed to the ravages ... Africa have spent considerable time poring over Wilde’s medical and prison records to propose an entirely… ...