In Extremis

On the night of 24th March 1895, Mrs Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde''s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, ''Bosie'', was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry (Bosie''s father) for criminal libel. But Wilde''s friends, wary of Queensberry''s power, were warning him to leave town. In Extremis reveals the strange turmoil of that night, as a man a...