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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND WAS TORN BY POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONFLICT But against this background cacophony a firm, pure voice spoke out, denouncing the ostentations of the rich, and the stranglehold of the Church on people's lives, declaring that every person could communicate directly with God. George Fox travelled the land sharing his testimony and with a group of close companions founded the Religious Society of Friends, more commonly know...

Dylan Thomas's stellar literary reputation rests on about a dozen truly fine poems and one unforgettable radio play, Under Milk Wood. In this trenchant biography, Jonathan Fryer argues that Thomas's prose work was often better than his poetry. But both belied the true nature of the man who wrote them: a selfish, exploitative, self-pitying barfly who wooed women on both sides of the Atlantic with his mellifluous voice, only to leave a trail of ...

The Irish playwright Oscar Wilde is a quintessentially 1890s figure, one of the modern world's first "celebrities", though the scandal of his downfall resonates still today. André Gide, on the other hand, was recognised as the foremost French stylist of the first half of the 20th Century, showered with honours and crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. So for many people it will come as something of a surprise to discover how far...

WELL OVER A CENTURY AFTER THE DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE, HE IS HAILED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST WRITERS OF COMEDY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, A BRAVE REBEL AGAINST CONFORMITY AND A GAY ICON. In many ways, Wilde was a man born before his time, championing modern attitudes to personal behaviour and freedom long before these became the norm. Though he died young, partly as a result of his cruel imprisonment, he lived life to the full, but contact with his w...

The remarkable story of Robbie Ross, the young Canadian who first seduced Oscar Wilde in London, is a tribute to devoted friendship and loyalty in a late Victorian milieu in which duplicity and subterfuge were more the norm. Ross not only helped Wilde discover his true nature but also stood by him during the playwright's tempestuous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the scandal of the subsequent trials and the purgatory of imprisonment wi...

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At the age of 18 months, Jonathan Fryer was adopted into a prosperous business family in Greater Manchester, but he felt like a fish out of water there. When his adoptive father started interfering with him sexually, his only dream was to get away as far as possible. The seeds were thus sown for him to take on the life of a foreign correspondent, beginning with his leaving home at the age of 18 to cover the Vietnam War. Eccles Cakes is beautif...

In the Autumn of 1891, Oscar Wilde set about conquering literary Paris. Gide was dazzled by the Irishman's energy and verve, but was driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown by Wilde's merciless paradoxes and questioning of religious faith. The two writers met repeatedly over the next ten years in France, Italy, and North Africa, both before and after Wilde's imprisonment. But by the time Wilde died in Paris in 1900, the tables had been turne...