Oscar Wilde

  • Oscar's birth

    Oscar's birth

    His full name was Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde and he was born in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Portora Royal School

    Portora Royal School

    He left this school in 1871.
  • Studies

    Studies

    Oxford during the 70s
  • Trinity College

    Trinity College

    After studying in Enniskillen, he went to Dublin until 1874.
  • Magdalen College

    Magdalen College

    He went to this college until 1878
  • Newdigate Prize

    Newdigate Prize

    He distingued himself also as a poet winning this prize with a long poem called Ravenna
  • Poems

    Poems

    Wilde published this at his own expense.
  • New York's lecture

    New York's lecture

    Wilde agreed and said he has nothing to declare but his genius
  • Wilde's return to Great Britain

    Wilde's return to Great Britain

    After 12 months in America, he returned to lecture on his impressions
  • Marriage with Constance Lloyd

    Marriage with Constance Lloyd

    Daughter of a prominent Irish barrister
  • Cyril's birth

    Cyril's birth

    First son of Oscar and Constance
  • Vyvyan's birth

    Vyvyan's birth

    Second son of Oscar and Constance
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales

    The Happy Prince and Other Tales

    Romantic allegory
  • Woman's world

    Woman's world

    He became the editor of Woman's World
  • The Decay of Lying

    The Decay of Lying

    He insisted in this essay
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Gothic novel which was published in Lippincott’s Magazine, 1890, and in book form, 1891
  • Intentions

    Intentions

    Previously published essays
  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

  • A House of Pomegranates

    A House of Pomegranates

  • Lord Alfred Douglas

    Lord Alfred Douglas

  • Lady Windermere’s Fan

    Lady Windermere’s Fan

    Comedy of manners, French drama
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    A trivial comedy
  • Entry into prison

    Entry into prison

  • Wilde's released from prison

    Wilde's released from prison

    He inmediately went to France, hoping to regenerate him as a writer
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  • Oscar's death

    Oscar's death

    He died of meningitis at the age of 46.