Oscar Wilde first hanging at Reading in 18 years. From Wooldridge's hanging, Wilde later wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". Wilde was not, at first, even allowed paper and pen but Haldane eventually succeeded in allowing access to books and writing materials. Wilde requested, among others: the Bible in French; Italian and German grammars; some Ancient Greek texts, Dante's "Divine Comedy", Joris-Karl Huysmans's new French novel about Christian redemption "En Route", and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and Walter Pater. Between January and March 1897 Wilde wrote a 50,000-word letter to Douglas. He was not allowed to send it, but was
Oscar Wilde Wright was the first to examine Wilde's marginalia. In 2018, Matthew Sturgis' "Oscar: A Life," was published in London. Sturgis is a subject expert in Victorian studies. In the thirty years since the publication of Richard Ellmann's biography, the vast amount of errors and omissions in the work have been noted (see the compilation of these errors and omissions in the privately published volume written by the German scholar, Horst Schroeder) and there has been a vast amount of scholarship conducted on various aspects of Oscar Wilde, his life, his wife and friends. There were also several rediscovered letters and