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Born
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde born October 16, 1854, Dublin,
Ireland -
Stardom to fame
While studying at Oxford in the 1870s, he gained
notice as a scholar, poseur, wit, and poet and for his devotion to the Aesthetic movement, which
held that art should exist for its beauty alone. Wilde later established himself in London’s social and
artistic circles. -
Novels
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady
Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). -
Death
After his release from prison in 1897, Oscar Wilde lived in France in straitened circumstances. In
1900 at the age of 46, he died of meningitis following an acute ear infection.