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William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era. He was the older brother of Oscar Wilde.
Willie Wilde - Oscar Wilde's older brother - had been destined for a distinguished public life, but the siren song of dissolute journalism proved too tempting.
How did Oscar Wilde's brother, Willie Wilde (1852-1899) assist his younger, more famous brother during his 1895 libel trial? What role did Willie Wilde's jealousy play? This video focuses...
Oscar’s brother, Willie Wilde, married one of the most formidable American women of her generation, Mrs. Frank Leslie. A barrister-cum-journalist, Willie had no appetite for work.
Mrs. Frank Leslie was an American celebrity, the “Empress of Journalism,” when Oscar Wilde and his family entered her life with such fateful consequences. Miriam Leslie had just rescued her late husband’s empire from bankruptcy with her President Garfield assassination coup, and become a power on Publishers’ Row.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
His father was the prominent Dublin doctor and folklorist Sir William Wilde, and his mother Jane was better known as the firebrand political poet “Speranza”. Together with Oscar’s...