![]() ![]() “My existence is a scandal,” Wilde would later write to Ross. Between then and his death three and a half years later, he would be marked as someone to be avoided. When the Jesuits refused, Wilde “broke down and sobbed bitterly”. ![]() Before his departure for Dieppe, Wilde had a note sent to the Jesuits in Farm Street in London asking for a Catholic priest to come so that he might receive spiritual guidance. It was arranged that Wilde, on release, once he had washed and shaved and changed into a new suit, would take the boat to Dieppe, where his friends Robert Ross and Reggie Turner were waiting for him. This was an indirect reference to Lord Alfred Douglas, who had been Wilde’s lover. ![]() ![]() The other condition, as Nicholas Frankel writes in his detailed and finely judged account of Wilde’s life after prison, was “that he not associate in future with any person deemed disreputable in the eyes of his own lawyer”. After much rancorous discussion, she agreed to offer him an annual allowance of £150 a year on condition that he did not get in touch with her or the children without her permission. T hree months before Oscar Wilde was released from prison, in February 1897, his wife Constance obtained a legal separation and a formal end of his responsibility for his two sons. ![]()
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