The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.  Meer

The first major life of the outstanding British painter – and Jack the Ripper suspect – Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.  Meer

Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence in the 1890s.  Meer

The definitive biography of Aubrey Beardsley, one of the defiining figures of the fin-de-siècle, by acclaimed author Matthew Sturgis.  Meer

A biography of three respectively tragicomic, daring and forward-thinking fin de siècle figures usually overshadowed by their more famous siblings:...  Meer