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‘Wilde was a queer, awkward lad’ — a lad ‘who hardly ever made a step he didn’t knock something over. He was big, ungainly and clumsy to such a degree that it made him a laughing stock. But those who made fun of Wilde did not know him. He was a big-hearted, liberal fellow, who never did a mean, underhanded thing, and his last shilling was at anybody’s disposal.’
Lloyd Lewis, and Henry Justin Smith, Oscar Wilde Discovers America [1882] (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936) pp. 8–9. Editor’s title.
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Wilkins, H. (1979). Memories of Trinity Days. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_2
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