Oscar Wilde

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Standard Name: Wilde, Oscar
Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose in England was not reversed until the modernists returned to the struggle for unfettered aesthetic expression. A leading proponent of art for art's sake in England, OW was a follower of Walter Pater , from whose work he borrows in lavish quantity, and, like Pater, he was much influenced by the French l'art pour l'art poets, notably Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier .
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press.
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More recently, his brilliant aesthetic essays have drawn serious attention as the basis for many critical propositions . . . which we like to attribute to more ponderous names.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House.
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His notoriety as a casualty of oppressive laws against the practice of homosexuality is also the subject of a good deal of recent critical comment.

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Intertextuality and Influence Michael Field
From 1890 (when they were introduced to Walter Pater and attended, along with Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons , a lecture he gave) Katharine and Edith were deeply influenced in their writing by Pater.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Intertextuality and Influence Ada Leverson
This dialogue brings together several fictional characters, including Wilde 's Salome, Ibsen 's Nora, Pinero 's Mrs Tanqueray, and Madame Santuzza from Mascagni 's opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne.
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Intertextuality and Influence Natalie Clifford Barney
A brief encounter with Oscar Wilde in early childhood made a deep impression on NCB . In an interview near the end of her life, she said, when at fifteen I read Oscar Wilde's short...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Naden
Oscar Wilde paid a tribute of sorts to CN in his comic short story The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance, 1887, about a determinedly materialist American family's encounter with an actual ghost of a...
Intertextuality and Influence Ada Leverson
The First World War is an important theme in this novel; Edith Ottley's guests find it hard to talk about anything else. Aylmer has returned into Edith's life as a wounded war hero. She decides...
Health E. Owens Blackburne
EOB was blind for some years. She lost her sight at about eleven but regained it after an operation performed by Sir William R. Wilde (father to Oscar ) when she was eighteen.
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research.
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Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.
Health Viola Tree
Shortly after her wedding, in September 1912, VT went back to Italy to resume voice training, but difficulty with her throat left her unable to sing. She tried a number of different remedies but none...
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird , E. Nesbit , Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Alice Meynell . She was also a friend of William Sharp , Austin Dobson
Friends, Associates Marie Belloc Lowndes
As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...
Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson
Friends, Associates André Gide
As well as his close acquaintance with members of the French avant-garde, AG was a friend of the British writers Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Bussy .
Friends, Associates Ada Leverson
Oscar Wilde , virtually homeless in the limbo following his first trial, went to stay with AL and her husband ; his wife visited him at their house.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Viking.
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Friends, Associates Sarah Grand
Moving to London brought SG to the centre of the campaign for women's rights; there she met leading activists like Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Eva McClaren , Lady Elizabeth Cust , and Constance Wilde (wife...
Friends, Associates Violet Fane
Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy

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