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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. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden [1] and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb. [2] As of the 50th anniversary of Wilde's death, the tomb also contains the ashes of Robert Ross [3], Wilde's ...
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [ a ] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [ b ] she was raised in a ...
Biography. Born in London in December 1945, [1] Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is the son of the author Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, Thelma Besant. [2] He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd. [3][4] His mother Thelma was an Australian cosmetician who became the personal beauty adviser to Queen Elizabeth II for ...
Jane Wilde. Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee; 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) [1] was an Anglo-Irish poet under the pen name Speranza[2] and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather [3] and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde.
The play Oscar Wilde (1936), written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, based on the life of Wilde, included Frank Harris as a character. Starring Robert Morley, the play opened at the Gate Theatre in London in 1936, and two years later was staged in New York where its success launched the career of Morley as a stage actor.
Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.
Not to be confused with A Man of No Importance. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. [1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.