Oscar Wilde hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote "De Profundis" (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46. Oscar Wilde was born at 21
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