1. J.K. Huysman, quoted in George A. Cevasco, Breviary of the Decadence: J.K. Huysmans’s A Rebours and English Literature (New York: AMS Press, 2001), p. 18.
2. See Joseph Bristow’s discussion of the terms ‘decadent’, ‘aesthetic’ and ‘symbolist’ in The Fin-de-Siècle Poem (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005), pp. 7–12.
3. An interest in jewel-like writing was not confined to men. Olive Custance, wife of Lord Alfred Douglas and thus on the fringes of Wilde’s circle, wrote a book of poems entitled Opals: see Olive Custance, Opals (London and New York: John Lane, 1897).
4. See Jean Arnold, ‘Cameo Appearances: the Discourse of Jewellery in Middlemarch’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 30:1 (2002), 265–88;
5. Aviva Briefel, ‘Tautological Crimes: Why Women can’t Steal Jewels’, Novel, 37:1/2 (2003), 135–57.