1. Arthur Ransome, Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1912), 205, 213.
2. See Leslie J. Moran, “Transcripts and Truth: Writing the Trials of Oscar Wilde,” in Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend, ed. Joseph Bristow (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009), 234–58.
3. H. Montgomery Hyde, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (London: William Hodge, 1948), 13.
4. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Vintage, 1988), vi-vii.
5. Melissa Knox, Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 1994.