The Ballad of Reading Gaol  – see here – bears the signature “C.3.3.”: this was the only identity Oscar Wilde could use during his detention in Reading Gaol in Berkshire, southeast of London. There, prisoners were no longer called by name but identified by an alphanumeric code indicating block, landing and cell: Wilde thus became “C.3.3.”, […]

Wilde & Reading Gaol (Part One)