{"id":4554,"date":"2016-04-25T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:28:03","slug":"a-woman-of-no-importance-by-oscar-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-woman-of-no-importance-by-oscar-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rd01T4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4556 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WomanNoImportance-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WomanNoImportance-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WomanNoImportance.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>A Woman of No Importance<\/em> is a play written by\u00a0Oscar Wilde. The play premiered on 19 April 1893 at London&#8217;s Haymarket Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The play starts at a swanky\u00a0house party located at\u00a0Lady Hunstanton&#8217;s country estate. \u00a0It&#8217;s announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed as Lord Illingworth&#8217;s secretary. \u00a0Drama ensues because of\u00a0a scandalous secret regarding Gerald&#8217;s mother. \u00a0Will\u00a0Gerald&#8217;s prospects be derailed?<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Men always want to be a woman&#8217;s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man&#8217;s last romance.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Woman%20of%20No%20Importance\">A Woman of No Importance<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Oscar%20Wilde\">Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>More about <em>A Woman of No Importance\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Woman%20of%20No%20Importance\">Quotes from <em>A Woman of No Importance<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1rd01T4\" target=\"_blank\">Buy the book<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Woman of No Importance is a play written by Oscar Wilde. The play premiered on 19 April 1893 at London&#8217;s Haymarket Theatre.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[938],"tags":[830,397,172],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-information","tag-1title","tag-a-woman-of-no-importance","tag-oscar-wilde"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}