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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

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

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

He has had attributed to him a Premonition to Princes; A Dialogue, in 1609, between a Jesuit and a Recusant; A Discourse on Spanish Cruelties to Moral and Metaphysical Essays.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an Eye-witness of their Cruelties.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various