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Chapter 22 - Michael Field and Oscar Wilde

from Part IV - ‘Be contemporaneous’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2025

Sarah Parker
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Loughborough University
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Michael Field and Oscar Wilde moved in overlapping cultural and social circles from the mid-1880s to his imprisonment in May 1895. Their mutual acquaintances included Bernard Berenson, John Gray, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon, Robert Ross, and William Rothenstein. Bradley was eager to befriend Wilde at one of Louise Chandler Moulton’s ‘at-homes’ in 1890. In 1891, the coauthors paid a visit to Wilde’s family residence. Later, they sought his advice on their only staged drama, A Question of Memory (1893). They maintained, too, a strong interest in Wilde’s comedies. Still, Bradley, Cooper, and Wilde never became close friends. Nonetheless, after Wilde’s demise in late 1900, Michael Field respected his legacy, attending the double bill of Salome and A Florentine Tragedy in 1906, choosing to remember him positively.

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