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Hector Hugh Munro, popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and c
Hector Hugh Munro by E. O. Hoppé (1913)
Photo from The War Illustrated, 31 July 1915
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential drama
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…Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first…
Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1882
The Wilde family home on Merrion Square
Oscar Wilde at Oxford in 1876
Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, 1881