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Oscar Wilde

Also known as Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde, Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was a poet, playwright, short story writer, and children's writer associated with the Aestheticism and Decadent movement. He wrote works in the genres of comedy, Gothic literature, drama fiction, and tragedy. His notable works include The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, and The Soul of Man under Socialism.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854, he was educated at Magdalen College and Trinity College, Dublin. He spoke English, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek. He was married to Constance Lloyd, and they had two children, Vyvyan Holland and Cyril Holland. His parents were William Wilde and Jane Wilde.

Wilde died in Paris, 6th arrondissement of Paris, in 1900. He is buried at Oscar Wilde's tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Cimetière parisien de Bagneux. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Harry Ransom Center.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde's…

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Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde — Self (archive footage)2021
The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde — Self (archive footage)1995

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Instance of: human
Family name: Wilde
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Dublin
Place of death: 6th arrondissement of Paris
Spouse: Constance Lloyd
Child: Cyril Holland
Father: William Wilde
Mother: Jane Wilde
Occupation: screenwriter
Educated at: Trinity College, Dublin
Languages spoken: German
Native language: English language
Religion: Roman Catholic
Award: Newdigate Prize
Notable work: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Field of work: aesthetics
Genre: long poem
Movement: Decadent movement
Official website: www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde
Image: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated.jpg
Work location: England
Significant event: funeral

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Commons category: Oscar Wilde
place of burial: Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
date of birth: 1854-06-16
date of death: 1900-11-30
topic's main category: Category:Oscar Wilde
Commons gallery: Oscar Wilde
Commons Creator page: Oscar Wilde
birth name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
archives at: Harry Ransom Center
ethnic group: Irish people
cause of death: meningitis
manner of death: natural causes
sexual orientation: homosexuality
place of detention: HM Prison Reading
start of work period: 1878-00-00
has works in the collection: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
writing language: English language
last words: Ou c'est ce papier peint qui disparaît, ou c'est moi.
name in native language: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
pseudonym: Sebastian Melmoth
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
unmarried partner: Lord Alfred Douglas
short name: Oscar Wilde
P8168: Xylophanes titana
end of work period: 1900-01-01
time period: Victorian era
P12749: Johann Ludwig Klüber
influenced by: Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Oscar Wilde, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde became conversant in French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism during this time, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

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