Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era. He was the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Willie was...
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movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde. Jane was the...
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Jane, née Elgee, and Sir William Wilde. Oscar was two years younger than his brother, William (Willie) Wilde. Jane Wilde was a niece (by marriage) of the...
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William (Willie) and Oscar, and a daughter, Isola Francesca, who died in childhood. In addition to his children with his wife, Sir William Wilde was the...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of...
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talkers. Wilde, born in London three months after her uncle Oscar Wilde's arrest for homosexual acts, was the only child of Oscar's older brother, Willie, and...
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Constance Lloyd (redirect from Constance Wilde)
Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of...
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Cyril Holland (redirect from Cyril Wilde)
Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland...
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Vyvyan Holland (redirect from Vyvyan Wilde)
Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator. He was the second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and Constance...
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1611–1679), English judge and politician Willie Wilde (1852–1899), Irish journalist and poet Jimmy Wilde (William Wilde, 1892–1969), Welsh boxer William Wild...
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Lord Alfred Douglas (category Oscar Wilde)
lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close...
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Merlin Holland (category Oscar Wilde)
is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and written about extensively. Born in London...
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Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an...
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The Canterville Ghost (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
"The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court...
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"Jehu Junior", but contributors included Lewis Carroll, Arthur Hervey, Willie Wilde, Jessie Pope, P. G. Wodehouse (who also wrote for the unrelated Condé...
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originating the role of Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde from 1997 to 1998, portraying Willie Oban in the 1999 Broadway revival...
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A House of Pomegranates (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection...
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The Remarkable Rocket (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
and Other Tales which is a collection of five fairytales written by Oscar Wilde. The Remarkable Rocket is a parody of aristocratic vanity and masculine...
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Ada Leverson (section Friendship with Wilde)
August 1933) was a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle. Leverson was...
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it out, for I am a very healthy-minded person". She met Willie Wilde, the brother of Oscar Wilde, during a trip to Ireland. They became engaged on the return...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been...
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Autumn de Wilde (born October 21, 1970) is an American photographer and film director best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of...
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The Sphinx (poem) (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde, written from the point of view of a young man who questions the Sphinx in lurid detail on the history of...
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pseudonyms such as "Jehu Junior", but contributors included Lewis Carroll, Willie Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Jessie Pope and Bertram Fletcher Robinson, with the...
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Robbie Ross (category Oscar Wilde)
Charles Willie Mathews to represent Wilde. His son, Travers Humphreys, appeared as junior counsel for the prosecution in the subsequent case of Wilde v Queensberry...
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" "The Canterville...
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The Oscar Wilde Centre is an academic research and teaching unit in Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1998, and is located at 21 Westland Row...
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Lily Wilde, née Sophie Lily Lees (1859-1922), the widow of Oscar Wilde's older brother Willie Wilde and thus became the stepfather of Dolly Wilde, then...
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
"The Portrait of Mr. W. H." is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord...
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Charmides (poem) (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
Oscar Wilde's longest and one of his most controversial poems. It was first published in his 1881 collection Poems. The story is original to Wilde, though...
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