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A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.
The Secret Rose, 1897, cover by Althea Gyles. Although Gyles continued to work, at writing and painting, she also drifted and had poor health. She gravitated towards a variety of movements and interests, which included horoscope writing, Buddhism, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism, while being supported by dissatisfied patrons such as Clifford Bax, who considered her a parasite.
English: Illustration by Althea Gyles for Oscar Wilde's book *The Harlot's House*, printed for Leonard Smithers at the Mathurin Press, 1904. Date: circa 1899
The House of Cards (1730)—two scenes of children playing sometimes paired. [12] The House of Cards; A Children's Party; The Ashley and Popple Family (1730) [13] Boys Peeping at Nature (1730)—subscription ticket for A Harlot's Progress, modified and reused as subscription ticket for Paul Before Felix and Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's ...
A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) [1] and engravings (1732) [2] by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute.
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde, published in 1891. It is Wilde's second fairy tale collection, following The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). He said of the book that it was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public".
Harlots is a British period drama television series created by Alison Newman and Moira Buffini and inspired by The Covent Garden Ladies by British historian Hallie Rubenhold. The series focuses on Margaret Wells, who runs a brothel in 18th-century London and struggles to secure a better future for her daughters in an unpredictable environment.
[2] A portrait by Kirkall of Eliza Haywood , prefixed to her Works in 1724, earned for him a couplet in Pope's Dunciad . After William Hogarth published in 1732 his major set of engravings The Harlot's Progress , Kirkall made free copies in mezzotint, printed in green, and published from his house in Dockwell's Court, Whitefriars, in November ...