Oscar Wilde renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform.
The Sun in Exile intermittent tambourine banging it does not matter because the tale is told in the first person by a wonderful, unforgettable spinster writer of 60, named Miss Alexandra Pendlebury. Miss Pendlebury, rich, much travelled, gently snobbish, both about people and culture, selfish, lonely, and superfluous, is a superb touching portrait." The Sun in Exile The Sun in Exile (1955) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. The narrator of the story, Alexandra Pendlebury, is a middle-aged spinster who writes travel books. On a sea voyage from Australia to England she shares a cabin with Vicky, a young Australian artist. All