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, 1985.
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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, 1969.
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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.
Black and white photograph of Oscar Wilde sitting

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Natalie Clifford Barney
The book was published by Ollendorff in Paris, with a frontispiece by Carolus Duran : a portrait of NCB posing as Wilde 's Happy Prince.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Chalon, Jean. Portrait of a Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney. Translator Barko, Carol, Crown, 1979.
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Elliott, Bridget, and Jo-Ann Wallace. Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (im)positionings. Routledge, 1994.
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Publishing Ella Hepworth Dixon
As a member of the Yellow Book circle, named for the illustrated quarterly largely initiated by Wilde , EHD naturally wrote for this journal as well. It too turned out to be less radical than...
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The story was rejected by The Yellow Book in January 1895 as too long (although they had recently printed a longer story by Henry James ).
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
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Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
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After this CM stopped submitting work to...
Publishing Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , contributed the poem Historic Women to The Woman's World, edited by her son Oscar .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
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Publishing Alice Meynell
AM stopped publishing with John Lane after Oscar Wilde 's conviction.
Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. University Press of Virginia , 2000.
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Reception Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
Reception Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris
Reception Lucy Walford
LW 's relation Mary was also an acquaintance of an unnamed aunt of Oscar Wilde 's. LW reports the aunt as having had little confidence in her nephew, believing he would never make a name...
Reception John Oliver Hobbes
The Ambassador proved to be JOH 's most successful dramatic work. On opening night, when the delighted audience called for the author, many of them were staggered at the appearance on stage of a young...
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Reception Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
By 16 November 1888, she had also received a grant of £100 from the Royal Literary Fund . Her son Oscar Wilde helped her to secure both pensions.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
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Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
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Residence Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
During her early married years, Jane Francesca Wilde lived at 21 Westland Row, Dublin. Some time after the birth of her son Oscar but before 24 November 1855, the family moved to the more...
Residence Lili Elbe
Before finding a permanent residence in Paris the couple stayed in the Hotel D'Alsace, where Oscar Wilde died. After they settled, Gerda was asked to contribute to a well-known Parisian illustrated periodical, and she...
Residence John Strange Winter
She became an active member of the community, encouraging English visitors through her writing, and retaining a summer house there even after the family returned to London in 1901. In 1897 the townspeople, appreciative of...
Textual Features Christopher St John
CSJ 's protagonist here is born illegitimate; his mother is an opera singer. The novel addresses the subject of male homosexual desire; it moves away from Oscar Wilde 's and Aubrey Beardsley 's re-interpretation of...

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