5 d. ago Historic London Townhouse That Inspired Oscar Wilde Asking £14 Million

Historic London Townhouse That Inspired Oscar Wilde Asking £14 Million  Mansion Global

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5 d. ago Thinking of a ‘No Buy’ 2026? The minimalist finance trend explained and how to get started

‘When it comes to money resolutions, one should refer to the Oscar Wilde quote ‘Everything in moderation, including moderation’, one expert said

Economics

6 d. ago Oscar Wilde's former Mayfair home now for sale for £14 million

The townhouse on Half Moon Street inspired the setting for The Importance of Being Earnest

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7 d. ago Oscar not Wilde for vegetarians! Letter discovered at auction reveals legendary playwright warned of 'dangers of a diet of green herbs'

A 139-year-old letter written and signed by legendary playwright Oscar Wilde argues that 'Brussels sprouts make people bloodthirsty'.

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7 d. ago Oscar not Wilde for vegetarians! Letter discovered at auction reveals legendary playright warned of 'dangers of a diet of green herbs'

A 139-year-old letter written and signed by legendary playwright Oscar Wilde argues that 'Brussels sprouts make people bloodthirsty'.

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3 w. ago Converts by Melanie McDonagh review – the road to Rome Catholicism’s unlikely 20th

A thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic – from Evelyn Waugh to Muriel SparkIn the five decades between 1910 and 1960, more than half a million people in England and Wales became Catholics. Among them were a clutch of literary stars: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and Graham Greene. But there was a whole host of poets, artists and public intellectuals less known to us today, whose “going over to Rome” provoked envy and dismay.In this thoughtful though brisk book, Melanie McDonagh, a columnist for The Tablet, gives us 16 case histories of Britons who went “Poping” during the scariest decades of the 20th century. At a time when reason and decency appeared to have been chased out by political extremism and global warfare, it was only natural to long for something solid. Writing in 1925, Greene confided to his fiancee “one does want fearfully hard for something firm and hard and certain, however uncomfortable, to catch hold of in the g...

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