De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie".
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde in New York in 1882; by 1897 he had lost much weight after a year and a half in prison.
Wilde's cell in Reading Gaol where he wrote De Profundis – as it appears today (2016)
Lord Alfred Douglas, to whom De Profundis is addressed
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
1882 photograph
The Wilde family home on Merrion Square
Oscar Wilde at Oxford in 1876
Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, 1881