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reviews_and_ramblingsReginald "Reggie" Turner (2 June 1869 – 7 December 1938) was an English author, an aesthete and a member of the circle of Oscar Wilde. He worked as a journalist, wrote twelve novels, and his correspondence has been published, but he is best known as one of the few friends who remained loyal to Wilde when he was imprisoned, and who supported him after his release. After Wilde's death, Turner, who was homosexual, felt few ties to England. Weintraub writes, "He felt alienated from an England which had driven Oscar to his death, and realised that some of the hostility toward Wilde might now continue to be directed toward those who had stood by him, and were similarly suspect." Turner thereafter lived abroad for much of the time. His royalties from his novels were modest, but together with his income from the Levy-Lawson family, they supported him in Paris and in French resorts. In his later years he lived in Florence, where he died at the age of 69 and was buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori.
Timeline & Places:
June 2, 1869: born
1880s: attended Hurstpierpoint College, Chalkers Ln, Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks BN6 9LR, Regno Unito
1880s: attended University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, Regno Unito
December 7, 1938: died. Buried at Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori, Via Senese, 184, 50124 Firenze FI, Italia
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