Not chloroform but too gross to talk about…the 1864 case of Travers v Wilde unleashed an avalanche of evidence disclosing caddish behaviour -and worse – on the part of Oscar Wilde’s father Sir William towards a young patient Mary Josephine Travers. All detailed in this video – no. 3 of a series on famous cases of the pre 1922 Four Courts.

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