Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitive life of Oscar Wilde, first published in 1916, Author Harris has added only a long statement, never before published, by Lord Douglas, and a memoir of Wilde by George Bernard Shaw...
Playwright Shaw's memoir of Wilde is sparkling. Shaw reports the "maudlin pathos and inconceivable want of tact" of Wilde's brother Willie. Slily he says: "Oscar was not a man of bad character: you could have trusted him with a woman anywhere." Shaw did not like Wilde personally, considered him a "Dublin snob"; but when Shaw was trying to get signatures of London literary men to a petition for the reprieve of the Chicago anarchists (1885), Wilde was the only one who would sign. Says Shaw: "It secured my distinguished consideration for him for the rest...