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Chosen, annotated and with an introduction by Eleanor Fitzsimons

Publication date: 18 October 2024

This book showcases the best articles from The Woman’s World under Oscar Wilde’s editorship, in a deluxe hardcover volume. The Joan Winchell edition of Articles from The Woman’s World, Edited by Oscar Wilde includes:

• 30 articles, never reprinted since the 1880s, covering women in politics, education, literature, the arts, careers and travel
• 84 illustrations including some full-page illustrations reproduced at original size
• Biographical notes about authors
• Biographical notes about illustrators
• Introduction by Eleanor Fitzsimons covering the importance of The Woman’s World in Oscar Wilde’s career, in the publishing environment of his time, and in late nineteenth-century feminism and women’s rights

Price: £35
Digital Edition: £15

Postage and packing:

• UK – Free
• Rest of World (Excluding Europe): £28
• Please note that owing to problems with customs, we are unable to send books to addresses in European countries. Digital version only available.

Simon Wilson
84 pp; The Sign of Nine, 2020

Simon Wilson OBE has written the definitive history of Jacob Epstein’s designs for Wilde’s tomb at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. He has expanded his in-depth article from The Wildean 56 into a booklet, with new information and additional images. It has been gorgeously produced, printed on high-quality paper with black endpapers and one of Epstein’s sphinxes silver-foiled on a purple card cover. In this booklet, Wilson – an art historian and retired Tate Museum curator – explores the inspirations and evolution of the controversial tomb sculpture. With never-before published images of Epstein’s designs and insightful commentary, the booklet reveals how it morphed from a Greek youth to a “flying demon angel,” how it reflects Egyptian mythology, and how its genitals were hidden and then stolen!

Key new information on the scandal surrounding the tomb’s installation in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is brought to light in Merlin Holland’s new book After Oscar, in the chapter “A Tale of Two Testicles”.

This edition is strictly limited to 12 numbered copies.

Please note that owing to problems with customs, we are unable to send books to addresses in European countries. Digital version only available.