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Was Oscar Wilde Granted a Pension by Queen Victoria?

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Almost everything is known about those last sad years the famous English poet spent in Paris. What remains unknown is the tale of those who helped him in the last few days of his life. It gives us great pleasure to be able to publish this story.

‘Oscar Wilde, fut-il pensionné par la reine Victoria?’, Les Annales Politiques et Littéraires (Paris), C (5 May 1933) 518–19. This is the first appearance in English

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E. H. Mikhail

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© 1979 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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De Rudbeck, I. (1979). Was Oscar Wilde Granted a Pension by Queen Victoria?. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_51

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