Article 70T98 Oscar Wilde gets his library card back

Oscar Wilde gets his library card back

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One hundred and thirty years after playwright and author Oscar Wilde's "reader pass" was revoked, the British Library is reinstating it. The library card was revoked in 1895 after Wilde was convicted of "gross indecency," essentially for being homosexual. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler has the details.

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