“I went last night to the Lorings,” [Henry James] wrote to - TopicsExpress



          

“I went last night to the Lorings,” [Henry James] wrote to Isabella Stewart Gardner in Boston, “and found there the repulsive and fatuous Oscar Wilde, whom, I am happy to say, no one was looking at.” We know James was lying about this because Harriet Loring, the daughter of the party’s hosts, described Oscar’s appearance in her parents’ home with these words: “We had Oscar! He burst upon our view one Sunday—tights, yellow handkerchief and all. He is the most gruesome object I ever saw, but he was very amusing. Full of Irish keenness and humor and really interesting.”
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:46:06 +0000

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