Biography

Oscar Wilde Biography 

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet born on 16 October 1854 and died 30 November 1900. In 1964, his father William Wilde was a surgeon who was knighted for his services to medicine and his mother was a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated at Trinity College and then Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became involved in the aesthetic movement.

After he graduated, he moved to London to pursue a literary career. Oscar Wilde wrote fairy stories and a novel called ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ which wasn't a success but his greatest strength was writing plays. His greatest talent was for writing plays, and he produced a string of extremely popular comedies including 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'An Ideal Husband (1895)' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895)

In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. In April 1895, Wilde sued Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being homosexual. Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour. His wife took their children to Switzerland and adopted the name 'Holland'.