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Oscar Widle (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet.
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Wilde begins his studies at the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Ireland in 1871
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Wilde enrolls at Trinity College in Dublin to study classics. He was an outstanding student, earning the school's top prize in Greek.
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Wilde is awarded the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for his poem "Ravenna."
He receives a bachelor's degree with top honors in classical
moderations and classics. He moves to London. -
Wilde publishes his first book, a collection of verse entitled Poems.
He has established a reputation as a leader in the London aestheticnmovement, and is parodied as a dandy in the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Patience. -
Wilde spends the year lecturing in the United States. During his time in America, he meets poet Walt Whitman, whom he greatly admires, and produces his first play, Vera, in New York. The play is unpopular.
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Wilde marries Constance Lloyd, the wealthy daughter of an English barrister, in London. The couple settles in the Chelsea neighborhood of London.
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The couple's first child, son Cyril, is born.
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The Wildes' second son, Vyvyan, is born.
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Wilde publishes The Happy Prince and Other Tales, a collection of fairy tales.
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Wilde publishes a book of short stories as well as a collection of essays outlining his thoughts on aestheticism. He also publishes his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Wilde's mother Francesca dies. His wife Constance visits him in prison in order to break the news. Wilde pays for her funeral but is unable to afford a headstone, and so she is buried in an unmarked grave.
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Wilde's wife Constance dies in Italy following spinal surgery at the
age of 40. The couple lived apart after the trials but never
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After a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, Oscar Wilde dies of
meningitis in Paris at the age of 46.
