3 d. ago ‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchersFor one of Victorian literature’s most distinctive voices, who was once hailed as a genius by Oscar Wilde, very little has been known about Amy Levy for more than a century.But audiences will now have the opportunity to become more deeply acquainted with a writer whose pioneering work explored women’s independence, Jewish identity and same-sex desire. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Paris launches lottery for burial plots next to famous stars like Doors' Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde

Are you dead keen on joining Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde for all eternity? Well now's your chance - as long as you don't mind moving to over to Paris

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2 w. ago When life imitates art: A night out in Manchester to the woman in GAIL's...the ordinary people mimicking masterpieces

Oscar Wilde once said that life imitates art more than art imitates life. That maxim was proved on New Year's Eve in 2016, when a photo of drunken carnage in Manchester went viral.

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3 w. ago Harris Reed's guide to London: Brat, Notting Hill dive shops and Dash water

Holland Park — I live there with my husband and it’s our little Oscar Wilde/Wes Anderson palace.

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3 w. ago Rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence to be displayed in London

Dunlap prints were the first official printings of the Declaration of Independence and it is believed only around 200 copies were ever made.

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last month Halle Berry, 59, strips to skimpy gold bikini as fans swoon over her ageless beauty

Oscar winner and ageless beauty Halle Berry sent her fans wild with a scorching bikini snap taken during her 59th birthday celebrations in Bora Bora back in August

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