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Oscar Wilde's former Mayfair home now for sale for £14 million

The townhouse on Half Moon Street inspired the setting for The Importance of Being Earnest

Evening Standard

Thinking of a ‘No Buy’ 2026? The minimalist finance trend explained and how to get started

‘When it comes to money resolutions, one should refer to the Oscar Wilde quote ‘Everything in moderation, including moderation’, one expert said

The Independent UK

Converts by Melanie McDonagh review – roads to Rome

A thought-provoking examination of the literary stars who became Catholic – from Evelyn Waugh to Muriel Spark

The Guardian - UK

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Jane Austen’s will to go on show at Love Letters exhibition

The National Archives’ display will also include Lord Alfred Douglas’s petition to Queen Victoria pleading for the release of his lover Oscar Wilde.

Evening Standard

Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue

The Guardian - UK

Mert Alas' Christmas wish list

From Venezian slippers to ballet tickets, here’s everything the creative director wants to find under his tree this year

Evening Standard

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

The Guardian - UK

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Paris launches lottery for burial plots near Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and Oscar Wilde

Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and French singer Édith Piaf.

Euronews

The Guardian has only ever published 18 zero-star reviews. Here they all are

As Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair sets a new low for TV, we revisit every single thing our critics have mercilessly panned since we’ve been online. Brace yourself for the Mount Rushmore of rubbish!

The Guardian - UK

Harris Reed's guide to London: Brat, Notting Hill dive shops and Dash water

The British-American fashion designer shares his favourite beauty spots and the perfect place for a cultured first date in the capital

Evening Standard

A congressman’s ex got a protective order against him. His boss has little to say about it

This isn’t the first time Cory Mills has faced allegations of misconduct – but the House speaker wants to talk about ‘serious’ things

The Guardian - US

The hidden tragedies of Wilde’s legacy

It’s impossible not to flinch at the boys’ trauma. They were separated to conceal their identity

Evening Standard

Hidden London: James J Fox

For almost 240 years, the shop has drawn the great and the good, from Churchill to Oscar Wilde

Evening Standard

Was Oscar Wilde Gay? Questions Resurface After His Library Card Is Reissued 130 Years After Being Revoked Over Suspicions of Homosexuality

Oscar Wilde's reading pass for the British Library was reissued after its revocation 130 years ago.

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The Independent UK

Oscar Wilde’s library card reissued by the British Library 130 years after it was revoked

The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’

The Guardian - UK

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon

Euronews

Tombstone tourism: Meet the travelling taphophiles obsessed with graveyards

A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.

The Guardian - UK

Salomé review – breathtakingly boring spin on Oscar Wilde’s baroque tragedy

Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling

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The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell presides over merrily queered comedy

Max Webster’s frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast

Evening Standard

The Importance of Being Earnest: 'Stephen Fry's Lady Bracknell is the trump card'

3/5 An all-star cast takes on Oscar Wilde’s classic in hyper-camp style

Evening Standard

Take That singer Jason Orange's former West End apartment for sale for £2.85m

Jason Orange bought the newly-converted property in the Strand’s Gatti House in 2015, a year after leaving Take That

Evening Standard

House of Guinness: Real-life Guinness heirs steal spotlight at London premiere celebrating Netflix drama on brewing dynasty

Descendants of the legendary Irish brewing family, including Lady Mary Charteris and Daphne Guinness, joined the cast at London’s Picturehouse Central

Reason

Trump v. The Wall Street Journal

Trial of the Century! See the Billionaire Media Titans Wrestling in the Mud! Coming to your screens this Fall!

The Guardian - UK

The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aesthetics

Evening Standard

Stephen Fry's guide to London: dining at Row on 5 and getting a trim at Geo F Trumper

The actor loves hotel stays at Claridge’s, and dates at La Petite Maison

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