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The Wilde family home on Merrion Square. Oscar Wilde was born [6] at 21 Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College), the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish couple: Jane, née Elgee, and Sir William Wilde. Oscar was two years younger than his brother, William (Willie) Wilde.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Robbie Ross Robert Ross at twenty-four Born Robert Baldwin Ross (1869-05-25) 25 May 1869 Tours, France Died 5 October 1918 (1918-10-05) (aged 49) London, England Nationality Canadian-British Other names Robbie Ross Occupation Journalist Known for Executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde Robert Baldwin Ross (25 May 1869 – 5 October 1918) was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best ...
Famously known for writing "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Oscar Wilde has more to his story. Learn about his fascinating tale at Gramercy Books on Sept. 30.
After Wilde's conviction and imprisonment in 1895, Constance changed her and her sons' last name to Holland to dissociate them from his scandal. [9] The couple never divorced, but Constance forced Wilde to give up his parental rights. She moved with her sons to Switzerland and enrolled them in an English-language boarding school in Germany.
Holland has studied and researched Wilde's life for more than thirty years. [3] He is the co-editor, with Rupert Hart-Davis, of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. [4] [6] He is the editor of Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, the first uncensored version of his grandfather's 1895 trials.
John Ruskin was Oscar Wilde's first choice as godfather to Vyvyan, but he refused because of his age. [2] Wilde then asked Mortimer Menpes , who accepted. [ 3 ] According to Vyvyan Holland's accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one.
Oscar Wilde died in 1900; neither of his sons saw him again after he went to prison. When he was released, he went to France and never lived in the UK again. From 1899 to 1903 Cyril attended Radley College, a private school then in Berkshire. [3] After ending school, he became a gentleman cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.