Madeleine Keane on books: Oscar Wilde’s reader’s card is ‘uncancelled’ by the British Library, 130 years on
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Oscar Wilde's Reader Pass gave him full access to the British Library – until his prison sentence. Photo: W&D Downey/Getty
After 130 years, the British Library plans to symbolically reinstate the reader pass that belonged to Oscar Wilde.
Wilde was officially excluded from the Library on June 15, 1895, following the trial and conviction he faced as a result of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which criminalised acts of “gross indecency” between men.
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