Public-domain archive · 1894
The Green Carnation
by Robert Hichens
A sharp social satire built around thinly veiled portraits of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, tracing coded desire through London drawing rooms and country-house conversation.
Why it belongs here
Its wit, gossip, and elaborate performances of identity capture the queer codes surrounding the Aesthetic movement just before Oscar Wilde's trials.
GaySatireVictorianOscar Wilde