The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed

Media	Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven	10 januari 2022
ISBN13	9781006002397
Uitgevers	Blurb, Inc.
Pagina's	78
Afmetingen	152 × 228 × 4 mm · 117 g
Taal en grammatica	Engels

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