■ Tate Street, where you live twice
Wilde, the most talented and outrageous writer of the 19th century, came to London after graduating from Oxford and became famous here, but at the peak of his reputation.
Tate Street is a secluded side street in Chelsea, London, where Wilde lived twice. The first was in 1880, shortly after arriving in London, when he shared a three-story apartment with artist friend Miles. But soon after moving in, Miles's religious father read a poem by Wilde, was shocked, thought it was a "lewd and debauched" work, and worried about the adverse impact on his son, asked Wilde to find a new home.
The second time he moved into Tate Street was in 1884, four years later, when Wilde had become famous. He married the Irish girl Constance and bought 34 Tate Street (the house number was 16). It is an unpretentious Victorian building with four floors of red brick.
Wilde statue in Dublin Park
After Wilde bought the house, he asked whistler, a famous artist at the time, to redesign it. The newly renovated house, the front door, the corridor, the staircase are all white, the dining room is painted white in different shades; the study is pale yellow, and the desk is the home of the famous writer Thomas Carlisle. Here Wilde wrote important works such as the novel "Portrait of Dorian Gray", the fairy tale "The Happy Prince", the drama "Lady Wen's Fan", "The Ideal Husband" and so on.
Wilde and his classic The Happy Prince
■ Indulgence of the Alberma Club
In the summer of 1890, Douglas, a beautiful teenager still studying in Oxford, appeared in the living room of Wilde's house, and a glimpse made Wilde feel that he was "face-to-face contact with the most beautiful in the world", and soon after the two began a brief but desperate love affair. Wilde was 36 and Douglas was 20.
Wilde (left) with Douglas
Although Douglas often visited Tate Street and was popular with Wilde's wife, Constance, Wilde became increasingly estranged from his wife. He often didn't go home, or at his Alborma Club, or at the Savoy Hotel, and mingled with Douglas and the pedophiles he brought back from the street. Opened in 1889, the Savoy Hotel is located in Covent Garden and is a premier luxury hotel in London. Wilde and Douglas chartered room 346 of the hotel, enjoying cold champagne and hot sex.
Wilde's wife and children
Wilde wrote a book specifically for children
Douglas's father, the Marquis of Queensbury, threatened Wilde several times by breaking into Tate Street to prevent Wilde from associating with his son. Wilde prepares to sue the court, but unexpectedly breaks himself. On 3 April 1895, the Central Penal Court of London finally acquitted the Marquis of Queensbury. On the contrary, Wilde's "misconduct" is well known to the world. On 5 April, Wilde was arrested at the Cadogan Hotel in Belgravia.
More than 100 years later, the hotel's attendants still know that Wilde was arrested in Room 118.
Stills from the British biographical film Wilde
■ Kiss marks on the tombstone
In 1897, after two years of hard labor in a British prison, Wilde left for Paris, where he was so disillusioned with england that he completed and published The Song of reading prison while living in France under a pseudonym.
The Song of Reading Prison
Wilde died of meningitis in 1900 at the Age of 46 at the Alsace Hotel in Paris. This is the smallest five-star hotel in Paris, which has been hidden on the left bank of the Seine for more than two centuries.
The building is located in 1828 on the site of the 17th-century legendary Queen Margaret's Pavilion of Love. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the building became the Alsace Inn.
The alsatian hotel gates are lined with the names of Wilde and Borges
In addition to Wilde's residence, a large number of celebrities, including the Spanish surrealist painter Dalí, Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco, actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, have visited here.
Wilde's tombstone was designed by the famous sculptor Job Ebastan, based on his poem "Sphinx", a mixture of Indian and ancient Egyptian angel statues, and the image is very similar to the head winged cow statue of the British Museum in London, which can be said to be a contrast with the classical tombstones around it.
Wilde's Tomb
Because of the controversy before his death, Wilde's tombstone was destroyed at first, and later people began to have a new evaluation of his talent and words and deeds. The traces of destruction are now gone, replaced by the dots of kiss marks left by admirers on his tombstone.