Oscar
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Wilde
Born in on Second floor of 21 Westland Row Dublin, Ireland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Henry Wilson [half], Emily Wilde [half], Mary Wilde [half], William Charles Kingsbury Wilde and Isola Francesca Wilde
Husband of
Constance Mary (Lloyd) Holland
— married
29 May 1884 in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom
Descendants 
Died
at age 46
in Paris, France
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Biography
Oscar Wilde is Notable.
Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland.
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Oscar was an Irish Poet see Irish Poets Team.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was the son of Sir William Wilde and Lady Jane Wilde.[2][3] He was born 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.[2]
Oscar was an intelligent child.[2] He attended Portora Royal School in his youth, then Trinity College, and later graduated from Oxford University.[2][3] He had a love of Greek and Roman classics.[2][3] He lectured after school and focused on his poetry.[2] While on a lecture tour in the United States, he met his idol, Walt Whitman.[2] Oscar was a supporter of the aesthetic movement, believing in beauty for beauty's sake.[2]
Oscar married Constance Lloyd on 29 May 1884 at the Anglican St. James Church in Paddington in London.[2][3] The couple had two children before his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas began, Cyril born in 1885 and Vyvyan born in 1886.[2][3] Constance left Oscar and took the boys to Switzerland, also changing their surname to "Holland" because of shame at Oscar's dealings with Lord Alfred.[3]
Oscar wrote his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1890.[2][3] He wrote Salomé (1891) in French in Paris but it was not staged in England "due to an absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage."[4] He continued to produce society comedies in the early 1890s, including Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.[2][3] He wrote his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1894.
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February 18th, 1895, Lord Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, left Oscar a note on his door accusing him of sexual immorality.[2][3] Enraged, Oscar decided to sue him for libel, which then led to the Marquess having him arrested. Oscar Wilde was convicted on 25 May 1895 of gross indecency,[2][3] and sentenced to two years' hard labor.[2][3] He was released on 19 May 1897, and moved to France.[2] Wilde died in poverty, from an ear infection which developed into cerebral meningitis, on 30 November 1900.[2][3]
Oscar Wilde is buried at Pere LaChaise Cemetery in Paris.[5] Over the years, a tradition of kissing his tomb had taken hold, and repeated cleanings have degraded the stone. It is now surrounded by security fences and a plexiglass barrier.[6] Oscar himself perhaps might not have objected to all the lipstick.
Sources
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Oscar Wilde," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikipedia:Oscar Wilde (accessed March 8, 2018).
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 Biography Editors, "Oscar Wilde", Biography.com, (accessed March 8, 2018).
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Oscar Wilde official website
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Oscar Wilde," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oscar_Wilde&oldid=864830533 (accessed October 21, 2018).
- ↑ "This Day in History May 25: Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for indecency", History.com (accessed 8 Mar 2018).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Oscar Wilde," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oscar_Wilde&oldid=864830533 (accessed October 21, 2018); citing John Tagliabue (15 December 2011) "Walling Off Oscar Wilde's Tomb From Admirers' Kisses", The New York Times; Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- Joseph Pearce, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, Ignatius Press, 2000
- http://www.livescience.com/49306-oscar-wildes-wifes-mysterious-illness-identified.html
- Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012 accessed 26 July 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
- Ross, Alex, "Deceptive Picture: How Oscar Wilde painted over 'Dorian Gray'", The New Yorker Magazine, August 8, 2011 (accessed 8 Mar 2018).
- The Works of Oscar Wilde on Project Gutenberg
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