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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
Lady Jane Francesca Wilde 'Speranza' 1821-1896 Poet and Essayist lived here 1887-1896. In 1911 the American-born writer Anna de Brémont, who claimed to have had a close friendship with Lady Wilde, published a memoir entitled Oscar Wilde and His Mother. [17] Mother of Oscar: The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde, Joy Melville, John Murray (1994)
Holland has studied and researched Wilde's life for more than thirty years. [3] He is the co-editor, with Rupert Hart-Davis, of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. [4] [6] He is the editor of Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, the first uncensored version of his grandfather's 1895 trials.
John Ruskin was Oscar Wilde's first choice as godfather to Vyvyan, but he refused because of his age. [2] Wilde then asked Mortimer Menpes, who accepted. [3] According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one ...
Oscar Wilde died in 1900; neither of his sons saw him again after he went to prison. When he was released, he went to France and never lived in the UK again. From 1899 to 1903 Cyril attended Radley College, a private school then in Berkshire. [3] After ending school, he became a gentleman cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
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 their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan . Early life and marriage
Wilde’s classic 19th-century novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was deemed “REPUGNANT” because it deals with homosexuality. | Opinion
Sir William Robert Wills Wilde FRCSI (March 1815 – 19 April 1876) was an Anglo-Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon and the author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the father of Oscar Wilde.