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A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.
The Secret Rose, 1897, cover by Althea Gyles. Although Gyles continued to work, at writing and painting, she also drifted and had poor health. She gravitated towards a variety of movements and interests, which included horoscope writing, Buddhism, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism, while being supported by dissatisfied patrons such as Clifford Bax, who considered her a parasite.
Two of these prose poems, "The House of Judgment" and "The Disciple", had appeared earlier in The Spirit Lamp, an Oxford undergraduate magazine, on 17 February and 6 June 1893 respectively. A set of illustrations for the prose poems was completed by Wilde's friend and frequent illustrator, Charles Ricketts , who never published the pen-and-ink ...
"Motive", includes reading from "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde "Byzantium" includes reading from "(Sailing to) Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats "The Golden Journey" includes reading from "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde, published in 1891. It is Wilde's second fairy tale collection, following The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). He said of the book that it was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public".
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:55, 17 March 2019: 544 × 745 (151 KB): Moonraker {{Information |description ={{en|1=Illustration by Althea Gyles for Oscar Wilde's book *The Harlot's House*, printed for Leonard Smithers at the Mathurin Press, 1904}} |date =c. 1904 |source =whollybooks.files.wordpress.com |author =Althea Gyles (1868–1949) }} Category:Althea Gyles ...
Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House composed the poem for the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear on Dec. 12, 2023.
A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) [1] and engravings (1732) [2] by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute.