Oscar Wilde -- "ass-thete" in 1882 America tour!

[Jingthing]

While I was aware of this tour before, I think the juicy details in this article will entertain.

But it was the very meeting of those two opposing energies that laid the foundations for a new sort of fame and fed what Wilde would become. As David M Friedman’s Wilde in America demonstrates, the Irish-born, Oxford-educated aesthete – renamed by some of the less admiring members of the US press as an “Ass-thete” – not only derived much delight from enlightening his erstwhile colonial cousins on “The House Beautiful” and the deep appeal of medieval dress (as evidenced in his own furbelows, velvets and breeches), but they rather liked him in turn.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2015/05/orchid-prairies

[Scott]

He's an extraordinary and very interesting person. I haven't had time to read the link, but I certainly will.

Thanks for posting the link.

[robertthebruce]

I am not a reader, as Books bore me, but once I read, "The picture of Dorian Gray", by Oscar Wilde, and I really enjoyed it..., but unfortunately not enough to read anything else,