The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde is a 1983 novel by Peter Ackroyd. It won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1984. The novel is written in the form of a diary which Oscar Wilde was writing in Paris in 1900, up to his death. The diary itself is completely fictional, as is the detail contained, although the events and most of the characters (such as the characters of Lord Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross and the Earl of Rosebery and his incarceration, at Pentonville, later Reading) are real. In this diary he looks back at
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,