Oscar Wilde’s visit to San Francisco sent the city into a bitter, clamoring frenzy

Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, wit and playwright, 1882. (Photo: Heritage Images/Getty Images)

San Francisco today is a city passionately divided on many issues, from the naming of schools to whether the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park should keep spinning. But in 1882, the city’s chief cause of furor was the arrival of…