Women’s School of Design (Edwin Forrest Mansion)

January 18, 1882, the day after Wilde’s ill-received lecture (see stop #8), was filled with events. Dr. Samuel Gross (now famous from Thomas Eakin’s 1875 painting The Gross Clinic), who knew Wilde’s family from a trip to Dublin, hosted a breakfast for him. Novelist Rebecca Harding Davis and her husband held a reception later in the day, followed by dinner at the home of George W. Childs, a newspaper publisher. Between these events, was a visit to the Women’s School of Design—now the Moore College of Art and Design—and a trip to see Walt Whitman in Camden (see stop #10).