Oscar Wilde and Ernest Dowson – a Talk by Jad Adams

In this talk for the Oscar Wilde Society, Jad Adams explores the unlikely friendship between Oscar Wilde and Ernest Dowson during the last part of the 19th century. Adams is the author of Madder Music, Stronger Wine, the biography of Ernest Dowson, which has just been reissued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Dowson’s death in 1900, aged just 32.

Adams is introduced by Vanessa Heron, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society, and his talk is followed by a few words from Don Mead, BEM, the society’s honorary vide president.

Jad Adams is also the author of the 2024 book Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives. Learn more at https://www.jadadams.co.uk/.