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Here is Wilde’s letter to the editor, later published as a pamphlet under the title Children in Prison: And Other Cruelties of Prison Life:

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

Jon Chapman, who manages Stornoway and hotly tipped newcomers Wild Swim, remembers the first gig played by another of his bands, Various Cruelties.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013

When Various Cruelties supported Kasabian," says their manager Jon Chapman, "we only did a few arenas, but it had a massive effect.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2013

Cruelties lurked everywhere, waiting in the confused mummery.

From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Cruelties of this sort could not go unpunished.

From A Brief History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach