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SUMMARY:The Final Hours of Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting 
 a duel to the death”
DESCRIPTION:\n\nWilliam Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture\nLecture by Josep
 h Bristow\, Distinguished Professor of English\, University of California\
 , Los Angeles\nThis lecture sheds fresh light on the forty-six-year-old Os
 car Wilde’s early death from encephalomeningitis at the shabby Hôtel d
 ’Alsace on Friday\, November 30\, 1900\, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. 
 By drawing on documents held at the Clark Library that have seldom been co
 nsulted before\, Professor Bristow will look closely at the rapid turns of
  events that impacted Wilde’s final hours. The Clark Library has recentl
 y catalogued the extensive papers of the Irish Passionist priest Father Cu
 thbert Dunne\, who converted Wilde on his deathbed to the Church of Rome. 
 The library also houses many letters by Reginald Turner\, the loyal friend
  who remained at the incapacitated Wilde’s bedside for several weeks. Th
 ese items reveal the urgent financial\, legal\, and religious matters that
  attended Wilde’s demise. The talk will also discuss Wilde’s indebtedn
 ess to the hotel proprietor Jean Dupoirier\, who soon after Wilde’s deat
 h turned his former guest’s insalubrious bedroom into a shrine for the w
 riter’s most devoted acolytes.\n\nJoseph Bristow is Distinguished Profes
 sor of English at the University of California\, Los Angeles. His most rec
 ent books are Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest
  to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022) and an edited collection\,
  Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents\, New Women\, and Fin-de-Siècle Cultu
 re (University of Toronto Press\, 2023). He is currently co-editing (with 
 Yvonne Ivory and Rebecca N. Mitchell) the Oxford English Texts edition of 
 Wilde’s uncollected\, unfinished\, and miscellaneous writings. His curre
 nt book project is “Queer Blackmail: English Cultures of Extortion\, 177
 6–1967.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: “Photo taken by Robert Ross of Oscar 
 Wilde two hours after death by flash light\,” 3:50pm\, Friday\, November
  30\, 1900\n\nInscription\, in ink\, on verso: “Photo taken by Robert Ro
 ss of Oscar Wilde 2 hours after death\, by flashlight. Nov 30th 1900." Sta
 mped\, in ink\, on verso: "To the appointment to T.M. The King and Queen\,
  William E. Gray\, 92\, Queen's Rd.\, Bayswater\, W. Fine Art Photographer
 .” With envelope from “Harrison Hale Schaff\, Attorney at Law\, 31 Bea
 con Street\, Boston” that is inscribed in ink: “Photo of Oscar Wilde t
 aken by Robert Ross\, his endorsement on the back.” The photograph was t
 aken by Maurice Gilbert\, likely with Wilde’s Kodak camera. William Andr
 ews Clark Memorial Library\, Box Wildeiana 20\, Folder 4
CATEGORIES:Lectures
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street
 \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States
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