"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences 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.

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	19. juli 2016
ISBN13	9781535387637
Forlag	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antal sider	44
Mål	152 × 229 × 3 mm · 77 g
Sprog	Engelsk

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