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Robert Baldwin Ross (25 May 1869 – 5 October 1918) was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend and literary executor.
Robert “Robbie” Baldwin Ross, journalist and art critic (born 25 May 1869 in Tours, France; died 5 October 1918 in London, United Kingdom). Ross is best known for his association with dramatist Oscar Wilde.
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Robert Baldwin Ross (25 May 1869 – 5 October 1918) was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover, and literary executor.
Wilde was interviewed by a representative of the St. James Gazette, Robbie Ross (1869-1918). Ross and Wilde had known each other for over a decade, and had become lovers around 1886, remaining in an open relationship and very close friends until Wilde's death.
In a compelling narrative of moral courage and personal integrity, this biography tells the story of Robert Baldwin Ross, the man who first seduced Oscar Wilde and never wavered in his loyalty to the flamboyant wit and playwright.
Published in time for the hundredth anniversary of Oscar Wilde's death, this unique biography of literary companionship recreates the life of Robbie Ross, Wilde's lover and greatest defender in the wake of the literary master's death.
The remarkable story of Robbie Ross, the young Canadian who first seduced Oscar Wilde in London, is a tribute to devoted friendship and loyalty in a late Victorian milieu in which duplicity and subterfuge were more the norm.
Jonathan Fryer's ''Robbie Ross,'' essentially a dual biography of Wilde and his first lover and confidant, is nevertheless insightful and agreeably readable.
Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend. Robert Baldwin Ross left Cambridge University without a degree, but he'd nonetheless become a pivotal figure in London's literary and artistic circles...