The Philadelphia Times - Saturday, October 19, 1895
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TETE-A-TETE
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is reported as being in a condition to excite the greatest sympathy. She is a woman once famous for her beauty, to whom Robert Browning indicted the famous dedication, ‘A Poet to a Poem,' and in whose drawing room, but one short year ago, might have seen the genius and fashion and culture of the best London society. Her husband's conviction, the sale of her home, the stripping and scattering of its treasures, all came, an avalanche of ruin, within one week.