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The first more or less objective biography of Wilde came about when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). [253] In 1954 Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment. [254] It was revised and updated by Merlin ...
Company of Thieves' single "Oscar Wilde" was featured on "Gossip Girl: Real NY Stories Revealed" as part of the Dove Go Fresh campaign, [7] as well as being aired during an episode of Gossip Girl. Their second album, Running from a Gamble, was released on May 17, 2011. The lead single, "Death of Communication", was released on March 15, 2011.
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.
She began using the surname Holland for both the boys and herself in order to protect them from public scrutiny. She relocated with the boys to Switzerland and enrolled them at Neuenheim College, an English-speaking boarding school in Heidelberg, Germany. [2] Oscar Wilde died in 1900; neither of his sons saw him again after he went to prison.
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 was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers. In classical genres, these include operas, ballets, incidental music , symphonic poems , orchestral suites and single pieces, cantatas , and songs and song cycles .
In 1990 Russell A.Brown published Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde in which the writer consults the great detective. In 1991, cartoonist Dave Sim published Melmoth, a partially fictionalised account of Oscar Wilde's last days, as a part of his graphic epic Cerebus.
"The Canterville Ghost" is a song by the Austrian symphonic metal band Edenbridge in the album Shine. The song is preceded by an intro track named "The Canterville Prophecy". "Dark Depth" is a song by the Serbian thrash metal band Alister from the album Obscurity, heavily influenced by Oscar Wilde's story.