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Author Fryer, Jonathan.

Title Robbie Ross : Oscar Wilde's devoted friend / Jonathan Fryer.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Carroll & Graf, 2000.

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 Moore Stacks  PR5236.R835 Z63 2000    Available  ---
Edition 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Description ix, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: London : Constable, 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index.
Summary "Robbie Ross is best known as the young man who first seduced Oscar Wilde and at the end acted as Wilde's devoted and able literary executor. He achieved something his lover appeared incapable of - maintaining a firm position within the establishment while living an openly homosexual life, at a time when that was all too often a recipe for disgrace or prison. This portrait of a chameleon figure - at once radical and conservative - gives a vivid picture of life in London at the turn of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Provenance Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus.
Subject Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918.
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Friends and associates.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Friends and associates.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Art critics.
Great Britain.
Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Editors.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 078670781X
9780786707812