![]() ![]() Lloyd and Wilde had two children, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). In 1887 he became the editor of a magazine called The Lady’s World (later re-launched as The Woman’s World). He worked for a variety of publications including Pall Mall Gazette and the Dramatic Review. The couple’s new domestic costs and their notably lavish lifestyle necessitated Wilde taking up a career as a journalist and editor. They were married soon after at St James's Church, Paddington, in London. In the same year, Wilde was introduced to socialite and writer Constance Lloyd.īy chance, Lloyd was in Dublin at the same time Wilde was delivering a lecture there and Wilde proposed. Wilde’s charisma and wit, however, won over audiences and began his rise to public fame. ![]() The tour was ostensibly a publicity stunt to promote the company’s upcoming tour of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Patience – Patience is a satire of the Aesthetic movement and the main character is said to be a parodic version of Wilde himself. Wilde composed and published his first play Vera, which opened to lukewarm reviews the following year.įunded by a London theatre company, Wilde commenced a 140 venue lecture tour of the United States. The movement is often (over)simplified as ‘Art for Art’s Sake’. Wilde became associated with Aestheticism, a philosophical movement that sought to privilege the beauty, style and form of art over its relative social and moral import. Wilde graduated from Oxford with a First and moved to London, where he became a fixture in artistic and social circles. He was also taught by literary critic and writer Walter Pater, whose novel Marius the Epicurean and collection of experimental short stories Imaginary Portraits are clear influences on The Picture of Dorian Gray. While at Oxford, Wilde became familiar with some of the most influential art and philosophical movements of the late-19th Century in Europe, including the work of the poet Algernon Swinburne and the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The course, nicknamed ‘Greats’, comprised advanced Classics studies, as well as the history of Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and Western Philosophy. Wilde graduated with a First from Trinity and went up to Magdalen College, Oxford – where his academic success easily earned him a scholarship. Wilde accompanied Mahaffy on tours of Italy and Greece in the mid-1870s and it’s reported that the two bonded over their interest in homosexuality in Classical culture. Mahaffy, who Wilde often referred to as his ‘first and greatest teacher’. He read Classics and was mentored by renowned Irish classicist and renaissance man J. Wilde returned to Dublin and began his undergraduate studies at Trinity College. According to Wilde, he was admired by his peers for his speed-reading skills and his storytelling prowess. Wilde attended boarding school at Portora Royal School at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in the south of what is now Northern Ireland. Sir Wilde was also an author and avid student of archeology, anthropology and Irish folklore. Wilde was the middle child of Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde – a poet who published under the pen name ‘Sepranza’ – and Sir William Wilde – an ophthalmologist who was knighted for his services to medicine. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin. But despite his remarkable output, and the canonical status he firmly occupies in contemporary times, Wilde’s career (and life) was extremely tumultuous. Oscar Wilde’s writing and intellectual career spans a wide range of forms, from children’s books, to magazine editing, plays, essays, letters, short stories and, of course, a novel. ![]()
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