le, and he professed "art for art's sake." It was also at this time that Wilde came into contact with the homo-erotic cult called "Uranianism" which celebrated relations between men and boys (Stokes 9). After Oxford, Oscar set out for London where his mother and brother had taken residence. He published a few plays, and facing some economic hardships, he was asked to tour America giving lectures. He soon became weary of lecturing and being billed as "The Great Aesthete." He became sick of the people who came to hear him merely out of curiosity in the hope that he would be wearing "funny clothes (Holland 50). After delivering about sixty lectures he returned to London determined to make his living by his pen. Upon his return from North America, Wilde returned to more conventional dress and public deportment. His reputation grew with his witty and shocking epigrams pronounced in London drawing rooms and dining rooms that were widely repeated. He toured, wrote, and married Constance Lloyd on May 29, 1884. Constance brought £5,000 to the marriage with an income of £250; Wilde brought nothing but his debts to depend on. While Constance's allowance would have been adequate to keep average people in some style, it did not satiate Wilde's
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