https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd en-us 2023-01-30 14:10:19 UTC 2025-10-20 20:57:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f426.png veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461470153 The first edition of this gothic novel appeared in the summer of 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. It was criticized as scandalous and immoral. ]]> 2023-01-30 14:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461470153 veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461485683 outcry due to its perceived references of homosexual desire]]> 2023-01-30 14:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461485683 veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461487740 Wilde considerably amended the text and a longer, noticeably ‘toned-down’ version of the book was published by Ward Lock and Co in April 1891]]> 2023-01-30 14:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461487740 veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461489202 The Lippincott’s version was used by opposing counsel in evidence against Wilde in two of his trials in an attempt to show him guilty of ‘a certain tendency’]]> 2023-01-30 14:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461489202 veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461500325 2023-01-30 14:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461500325 veronica_decrignis https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461502948 In the 1891 version Wilde added a Preface (as well as 6 chapters) to respond to the critics.]]> 2023-01-30 14:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/veronica_decrignis/lo7gqjki75q3j0jd/wish/2461502948