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Willie was the oldest son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being 'Speranza'). Their second son, Oscar, was born in the same house in 1854. Jane Wilde was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 ...
William Wilde. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde FRCSI (March 1815 – 19 April 1876) was an Anglo-Irish oto - ophthalmologic surgeon and the author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He was the father of Oscar Wilde.
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.
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 ...
Jane was born to George and Beryl Wilde (née Eagleton). She grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire. She was raised in the Church of England and is an active Christian. [1][2] She studied languages at the University of London's Westfield College. [3] Jane and Stephen Hawking met through mutual college friends at a party in 1962.
Lady Windermere's Fan. 1892 premiere: left to right, Ben Webster (Cecil Graham), Nutcombe Gould (Lord Darlington), Adolphus Vane-Tempest (Charles Dumby), H. H. Vincent (Lord Augustus Lorton) and George Alexander (Lord Windermere) Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday ...
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 ...
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 ...