Wilde's Last Stand by Philip Hoare
Wilde's Last Stand

Philip Hoare

Wilde's Last Stand

Philip Hoare

256 pages paperback 1997

8 editions

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ challenging slow-paced
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The first production of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1918 touched off a firestorm in London when the play's lead, exotic dancer Maud Allan, was denounced as belonging to the Cult of the Clitoris -- a feminine variation on the Cult of Wilde, the mark of...

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