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I do not propose to touch on the second of these, but some details on the first may be of interest. Oxford gave him the opportunity, which Dublin would never have done, of coming to the front, and the friends he made there were of great use to him afterwards.
‘The two great turning points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford and when Society sent me to prison.’ (‘De Profundis’ — O. W.)
The Cornhill Magazine (London), lxvi (May 1929) 559–64.
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Atkinson, G.T. (1979). Oscar Wilde at Oxford. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_5
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