Oscar Wilde’s ‘A Woman of No Importance’ (1893): an extract

My warm thanks to a lady supporter, JT, for emailing me this a moment ago:

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/woman-of-no-importance-45.html

The most inspired lines on the page are, of course, these:

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The Irish genius wrote these lines 120 years ago. Will the rest of the world catch up with him one day?

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