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Description: | On the left-hand page of this factory visitors' book is the signature of Oscar Wilde, the poet and playwright. The Wildes were family friends of Walter and Jean Palmer. The novelist George Meredith was a guest at their house in Southcote Road on the same occasion. These two literary figures did not get on well together, as both liked the sound of their own voice. Meredith's signature can be seen above that of Wilde - they visited the factory on different days! Only three years later Oscar Wilde returned to Reading as a prisoner at the gaol. This being situated only yards from the factory was called the 'biscuit factory' by inmates. Occasionally a kind warder smuggled Wilde, whose stomach was permanently upset by the prison food, a few Ginger Nut biscuits. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | Johnston Forbes Robertson Louise Jopling social history trade communication Oscar Wilde Henry Irving George Meredith | Temporal: | start=1891-01-01; end=1892-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Huntley & Palmers | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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