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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.
Oscar Wilde in New York in 1882; by 1897 he had lost much weight after a year and a half in prison. In 1891, Wilde began his intimate friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas , a young, vain aristocrat. As the two grew closer, family and friends on both sides urged Wilde and Douglas to lessen their friendship.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ r ɛ. d ɪ ŋ. dʒ eɪ l /) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
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INTERVIEW: The author of award-winning alternative history novel ‘The New Life’ tells Louis Chilton how Wilde’s trial set back a moment of optimism
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 ]
Homosexuality was illegal in 1890s United Kingdom. Wilde had a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, a younger man, whose father wanted it to end.Following a failed private prosecution for criminal libel that Wilde brought against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry for statements he had made accusing Wilde of sodomy, Wilde was charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with ...
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) wrote 14 stories while in prison for embezzlement between 1898 and 1901, and it was during this time that his pseudonym "O. Henry" began to stick. [7] Oscar Wilde wrote the philosophical essay De Profundis while he was in Reading Gaol on charges of "unnatural acts" and "gross indecency" with other men. [7]