Maguire, J. Robert.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Notes:

• ‘The greatest friendship of my life’ — ‘Sadness, disappointment, upset, & weariness’ — ‘The girl with the foghorn voice’ — ‘He has been mad the last 3 years’ — ‘Letters from two idiots to a lunatic’ — ‘The most better experience of a bitter life’ — ‘The Dreyfus-case Paris cannot be figured by the Paris of today’ — ‘Paradoxes are always dangerous things’ — ‘No one should know such an infamous person as Bosie’ — ‘He was a great genius. His familiar talk was golden’ — Appendix: Carlos Blacker’s ‘private and confidential’ memorandum on the Dreyfus Affair.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
• ‘Ceremonies of Bravery’ is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be at his best, and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde’s marriage settlement.

Subjects:

• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 — Friends and associates.
• Blacker, Carlos, 1857-1928 — Friends and associates.
• Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
• Authors, Irish — 19th century — Biography.
• Trials (Treason) — France — History — 19th century.

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