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Folio 47


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Folio 47 is a handwritten notebook page with no cutouts. Folio 47 stops mid-page and Wilde crosses out the last line seemingly to match up with the next folio.

Folio 47 is a handwritten notebook page with no cutouts. Wilde leaves a blank after "Betterton said that" presumably to fill in at a later point.  In the Kennerley edition, Kennerley/Hooley supplies a quotation "it has been disputed among the judicious, whether any woman could have more sensibly touched the passions,” but this quotation is actually from John Downes. For more detail on this, see Ian Small, “‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.,’ Textual Identity, and Oscar Wilde’s ‘Incalculable Injury.’” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, vol. 63, no. 4, 2020, pp. 509-532.

Folio 47 stops mid-page and Wilde crosses out the last line seemingly to match up with the next folio.

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Rosenbach Manuscript of Oscar Wilde's extended "The Portrait of Mr W.H."


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Submitted by Sandra Leonard on Thu, 08/12/2021 - 16:56

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