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In the same year and month that Mr. Aldrich succeeded Mr. Howells in the editorial chair of the ‘Atlantic,’ Boston had a new sensation in the arrival of Mr. Oscar Wilde. In a note to Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Stedman said: ‘This Philistine town [New York] is making a fool of itself over Oscar Wilde, who is lecturing on Art Subjects, appearing in public in an extraordinary dress — a loose shirt with a turn-down collar, a flowing tie of uncommon shade, velvet coat, knee-breeches — and often he is seen in public carrying a lily, or a sunflower, in his hand. He has brought hundreds of letters of introduction.’
Crowding Memories (London: Constable, 1921) pp. 246–9. Editor’s title.
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Aldrich, T.B. (1979). Oscar Wilde in Boston. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_18
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