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He worked as a journalist, wrote twelve novels, and his correspondence has been published, but he is best known as one of the few friends who remained loyal to Wilde when he was imprisoned and who supported him after his release. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Everett" title="Rupert Everett">Rupert Everett</a>‘s biopic of Wilde, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_(2018_film)" title="The Happy Prince (2018 film)">The Happy Prince</a></i>, he is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Firth" title="Colin Firth">Colin Firth</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Turner&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg/220px-Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="353" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg/330px-Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg/440px-Reginald_Turner_Hyde_Collection.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2333" data-file-height="3745" /></a><figcaption>Reginald Turner</figcaption></figure> <p>Turner never knew who his parents were,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was an illegitimate member of, and raised by, the <a href="/wiki/Levy-Lawson" class="mw-redirect" title="Levy-Lawson">Levy-Lawson</a> family, owners of the newspaper, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Hurstpierpoint_College" title="Hurstpierpoint College">Hurstpierpoint College</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Merton_College,_Oxford" title="Merton College, Oxford">Merton College, Oxford</a>. On leaving Oxford he trained briefly as a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> under <a href="/wiki/Travers_Humphreys" title="Travers Humphreys">Travers Humphreys</a>, but was too lazy for the Law;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having a leaning towards writing he joined <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, where he inaugurated the paper's gossip column.<sup id="cite_ref-mugg_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mugg-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1901 and 1911 he published a dozen novels.<sup id="cite_ref-tls_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tls-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of them made a great impression – Turner observed that it was not his first editions that were scarce, but his second ones,<sup id="cite_ref-stand_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stand-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although at least three of his novels were reprinted.<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His biographer, <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Weintraub" title="Stanley Weintraub">Stanley Weintraub</a>, comments that the circumstances of Turner's birth, reminiscent of <i><a href="/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore" title="H.M.S. 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Pinafore</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest" title="The Importance of Being Earnest">The Importance of Being Earnest</a>,</i> are reflected in his fiction, sometimes humorously and sometimes seriously.<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beerbohm-letters.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Beerbohm-letters.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="282" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="190" data-file-height="282" /></a><figcaption><i>Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner</i> with <a href="/wiki/Max_Beerbohm" title="Max Beerbohm">Beerbohm</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Caricature" title="Caricature">caricature</a> of Turner</figcaption></figure> <p>Turner numbered among his friends <a href="/wiki/Max_Beerbohm" title="Max Beerbohm">Max Beerbohm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Alfred_Douglas" title="Lord Alfred Douglas">Lord Alfred Douglas</a>, <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Bennett" title="Arnold Bennett">Arnold Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Maugham" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset Maugham">Somerset Maugham</a>, <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osbert_Sitwell" title="Osbert Sitwell">Osbert Sitwell</a> and others of the London literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/S._N._Behrman" title="S. N. Behrman">S. N. Behrman</a> said of him, "He was one of those men who talk like angels and write like pedestrians".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Harold_Acton" title="Harold Acton">Harold Acton</a> agreed, writing of Turner's conversation, "One forgot to eat while he spun his fantasies." Beerbohm said, "He would be eloquent even were he dumb,"<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Maugham wrote, "Reggie Turner was, on the whole, the most amusing man I have known."<sup id="cite_ref-behrman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behrman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Turner's novels contain portraits of his contemporaries and of himself ("Reginald Cobbler," in <i>Castles in Kensington</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others whom he sketched in his novels were <a href="/wiki/Henry_James" title="Henry James">Henry James</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ada_Leverson" title="Ada Leverson">Ada Leverson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Berenson" title="Bernard Berenson">Bernard Berenson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Duveen" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Duveen">Joseph Duveen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hope" title="Anthony Hope">Anthony Hope</a>. Osbert Sitwell put a comic version of Turner as "Algy Braithwaite" into his verses <i>On the Continent</i>: "wherever he went, he carried with him / The atmosphere of London in the 1890s."<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Turner was also the model for the character "little Algy Constable" in Lawrence's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Aaron%27s_Rod_(novel)" title="Aaron's Rod (novel)">Aaron's Rod</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-tls_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tls-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Turner was one of the very few of the old circle who remained with Wilde after his release from prison, and he was at his bedside when he died. Beerbohm relates how, a few days before Wilde's death, Turner had found Wilde very depressed after a nightmare. "I dreamt that I had died, and was supping with the dead!" said Wilde. "I am sure", Turner replied, "that you must have been the life and soul of the party."<sup id="cite_ref-behrman_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behrman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Turner, with <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Ross" title="Robbie Ross">Robbie Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Harris" title="Frank Harris">Frank Harris</a>, supported Wilde to the end.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Wilde's trial Ross lost contact with <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Holland" title="Cyril Holland">Cyril</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vyvyan_Holland" title="Vyvyan Holland">Vyvyan</a>, Wilde's sons. At his first meeting with Vyvyan Holland (as Wilde's son was now named) Ross was accompanied by Beerbohm and Turner – "a highly emotional meeting," Holland later recalled.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oscar Wilde's correspondence with Reginald Turner forms the basis of The <a href="/wiki/Lady_Eccles_Oscar_Wilde_Collection" title="Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection">Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection</a> at the <a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a>, later much augmented with material from other sources.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Wilde's death, Turner, who was homosexual, felt few ties to England. Weintraub writes, "He felt alienated from an England which had driven Oscar to his death, and realised that some of the hostility toward Wilde might now continue to be directed toward those who had stood by him, and were similarly suspect."<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Turner thereafter lived abroad for much of the time. His royalties from his novels were modest, but together with his income from the Levy-Lawson family, they supported him in Paris and in French resorts.<sup id="cite_ref-elt_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his later years he lived in <a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a>, where he died at the age of 69 and was buried in the <a href="/wiki/Cimitero_Evangelico_degli_Allori" class="mw-redirect" title="Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori">Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Turner's_novels"><span id="Turner.27s_novels"></span>Turner's novels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Turner&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Turner's novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Cynthia's Damages. A story of the stage</i> (1901). Greening & Co, London</li> <li><i>The Comedy of Progress – A novel</i> (1902). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Castles in Kensington</i> (1904). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Dorothy Raeburn – A novel</i> (1905). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Peace on Earth – A novel</i> (1905). <a href="/wiki/Alston_Rivers" title="Alston Rivers">Alston Rivers</a>, London</li> <li><i>The Steeple – A novel</i> (1905). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Davry's Affairs</i> (1906). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Uncle Peaceable</i> – A comedy (1906). Greening & Co</li> <li><i>Imperial Brown of Brixton</i> (1908). <a href="/wiki/Chapman_%26_Hall" title="Chapman & Hall">Chapman & Hall</a>, London</li> <li><i>Samson Unshorn</i> (1909). Chapman & Hall</li> <li><i>Count Florio and Phyllis K.</i> (1910). Chapman & Hall</li> <li><i>King Philip the Gay</i> (1911). Greening & Co</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Turner&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Blackmansbury: Volume 2 Turner is said to have been born on 2 June 1869. A search of the calendars of births at the General Register Office, London for the period 1867–1871 revealed the following Reginald Turners 1867 Sep. quarter Reginald Charles Turner ..</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Max Beerbohm's letters to Reggie Turner Sir Max Beerbohm, Rupert Hart-Davis, Reggie Turner – 1964 "Reggie Turner's parentage is still obscure. He believed that he had been born on 2 June 1869, but I can find no birth-certificate in confirmation. Many people assumed that he was an illegitimate son of the newspaper proprietor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Levy-Lawson,_1st_Baron_Burnham" title="Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham">Edward Levy</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-elt-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-elt_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Weintraub, Stanley, "Reggie Turner, Forgotten Edwardian Novelist", <i>English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920</i>, Volume 48, Number 1, 2005, pp. 3–37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Humphreys, Travers – 'Criminal Days' – Hodder & Stoughton (1946) p. 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mugg-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mugg_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muggeridge, Malcolm, "Max's Dearest Reg", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, 5 June 1966, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tls-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tls_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tls_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Morchard, Bishop, "Gentlemanly Game", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a></i>, 16 June 1966, p. 536</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-stand-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-stand_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Epstein, Joseph, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130105132739/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/840zushq.asp?pg=2">"The Beerbohm Cult"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a></i>, 11 November 2002</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Behrman, S. N. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://snbehrman.com/library/newyorker/60.3.12.NY.htm">"Conversation with Max"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, 12 March 1960, p. 59</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-behrman-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-behrman_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-behrman_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Behrman, p. 186</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kermode, Frank, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KpII6oFyZP4C&dq=reginald+turner+beerbohm&pg=PA239"><i>The Uses of Error</i></a>, p. 239</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110719063148/http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm">"Vyvyan Holland biography on 'Mr Oscar Wilde' website"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm">the original</a> on 19 July 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 October</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Vyvyan+Holland+biography+on+%27Mr+Oscar+Wilde%27+website&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mr-oscar-wilde.de%2Fabout%2Fh%2Fholland_v.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReginald+Turner" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/ladyecclesoscarwilde/index.html">Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection at the British Library</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Obituary, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, 8 December 1938, p. 18</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Turner&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Berhman, Samuel Nathaniel (1960). <i>Conversation with Max</i>. London: Hamish Hamilton. OCLC 499540234. Also published as <i>Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm</i>. New York: Random House (1960).</li> <li>Hart-Davis, Rupert (ed.) (1964). <i>Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner</i>. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. OCLC 71764566</li> <li>Weintraub, Stanley (1965). <i>Reggie: A Portrait of Reginald Turner</i>. New York: George Braziller. OCLC 504840575</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Turner&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130105132739/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/840zushq.asp?pg=2">Turner in 'The Beerbohm Cult' by Joseph Epstein</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a></i> 11 November 2002</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm">Turner and the Vyvyan Holland biography on Mr Oscar Wilde website</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110719063148/http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm">Archived</a> 19 July 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> biography on Mr Oscar Wilde website.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output 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