Dame Edna was wild about Wilde

The public may have been surprised to discover that Barry Humphries (1934-2023), the creator of Dame Edna Everage, was a great bibliophile with a passion for rare books by the ‘decadent’ writers of the fin de siècle.

All was revealed at Christie’s on February 13 this year.

Among the most treasured volumes in Hump…

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