Bibliographies
Oscar Wilde Bibliography
Colorado History NOW, June 2003
Modupe Labode, Chief Historian, Colorado Historical Society
I first learned of Oscar Wilde’s time in Colorado from the opening scenes of the 1997 movie "Wilde,"(starring Stephen Fry), which feature an imaginative take on Oscar Wilde’s reception in Leadville.
Cumming, Elizabeth and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Griswold, Don L. and Jean Harvey Griswold. History of Leadville and Lake County, Colorado. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1996.
Hoare, Philip. "The Original Man Who Fell to Earth," The Observer, 5 November 2000. Available from http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews, accessed March 31, 2003.
Holland, Merlin and Rupert Hart-Davis, editors. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2000.
Kaplan, Wendy, editor. The Encyclopedia of Arts and Crafts: The International Arts Movement, 1850-1920. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, "Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde." Available from http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/00main.htm. accessed April 14, 2003.
Raby, Peter, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Rocky Mountain News. "Arrested for Estheticism," 6 April 1882, p. 4.
-----. "Ascerbated Esthetics." 9 April 1882, p. 4.
Secrest, Clark. Hell’s Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver. Revised Edition, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Simmons, James C. Star-Spangled Eden: Nineteenth Century America Through the Eyes of Dickens, Wilde, Frances Trollope, Frank Harris and other British Travelers New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2000.
Thompson, Slason. Eugene Field: A Study in Heredity and Contradictions, Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1901.