{"id":1604,"date":"2012-10-23T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2017-04-22T06:59:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:59:05","slug":"10-interesting-facts-about-oscar-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10-interesting-facts-about-oscar-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Interesting Facts About Oscar Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oscar<\/p>\n


\nWhat you Probably Know<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet. He’s remembered for his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> as well was other works. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. \u00a0He was born on\u00a0October 16, 1854 in Dublin. \u00a0He died on November 30, 1900 in Paris. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0What you May Not Know<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  1. His full name was Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde.<\/li>\n
  2. His father, William Wilde, was an acclaimed doctor.\u00a0 He was knighted for his work as medical adviser for the Irish censuses.\u00a0 William Wilde founded St. Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital to treat the city’s poor.<\/li>\n
  3. An early romantic interest of Oscar Wilde was Florence Balcombe.\u00a0 She eventually became the wife of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  4. In 1882 Wilde began a lecture tour of North America. The subject was\u00a0Aestheticism, a movement that celebrated beauty and art. \u00a0 During the tour Wilde meet with some of the leading American literary figures of the day, including Henry Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman.<\/li>\n
  5. Wilde\u00a0 married Constance Lloyd on May 29, 1884.\u00a0 The couple had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.<\/li>\n
  6. In 1891 Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas.\u00a0\u00a0 They became lovers.\u00a0 Alfred’s father was\u00a0 John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.\u00a0 The elder Douglas did not approve of his son’s relationship.\u00a0 Feuding between John Douglas and Wilde eventually led to Wilde being convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts.\u00a0 Wilde was sentenced to\u00a0 two years of hard labor.<\/li>\n
  7. Despite Wilde’s preference for men and the social scandal caused by his trial and imprisonment, Wilde and his wife never divorced.\u00a0 However Constance did change her and her sons’ last name to Holland.<\/li>\n
  8. After his release from prison in 1897 Wilde left England and\u00a0 moved to France.\u00a0 He stayed there until his death.<\/li>\n
  9. Wilde wrote plays and short stories, but only one novel.\u00a0 His only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  10. Wilde died of meningitis on November 30, 1900. He was only 46 years old.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Novel by Oscar Wilde<\/h2>\n