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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 ...
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 ...
Sr. Nirmala Joshi, MC. 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 ...
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.
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 Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella -length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. [1][2] The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian ...
The tomb of Oscar Wilde in Division 89 of the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France, as it appeared on May 22, 2012. This photo shows the glass barrier that has been erected around the tomb to discourage "vandalism" from adoring fans. Source. I took the photo myself with a digital camera.
1883 cartoon by Alfred Bryan after the failure of Oscar Wilde 's play Vera; or, The Nihilists in America. Vera is a barmaid in her father's tavern, which is situated along a road to the prison camps in Siberia. A gang of prisoners stop at the tavern. Vera immediately recognises her brother Dmitri as one of the prisoners.