Oscar Wilde he was moved to Wandsworth Prison in London. Inmates there also followed the regimen of "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed", which wore harshly on Wilde's delicate health. In November he collapsed during chapel from illness and hunger. His right ear drum was ruptured in the fall, an injury that later contributed to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary. Richard B. Haldane, the Liberal MP and reformer, visited Wilde and had him transferred in November to Reading Gaol, west of London on 23 November 1895. The transfer itself was the lowest point of his incarceration,
A Conversation with Oscar Wilde that the sculpture "already evokes more favourable response from the public than any other statue I know in London, with the possible exception of Peter Pan" (a much-reproduced statue, the original of which stands in Kensington Gardens). Charles Spencer, chief drama critic of "The Telegraph", while professing his liking for the artist as a person, wrote how he loathed her sculptures. With respect to "A Conversation", he wrote: The sculpture was one of five works or events considered in "The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde: A Cultural Afterlife", along with "the consecration of a window in Wilde's honour in Poet's Corner,