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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

"Cruelties you might call them," rejoined Dempsey, with energy.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

What Cruelties and Outrages would they not commit against Men of an adverse Party, whom they would honour and esteem, if instead of considering them as they are represented, they knew them as they are?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph