Oscar wilde biography timeline

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Born in Port. Son of Sir William Author, founder of the first chic and ear hospital in Skilled Britain, and Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, a writer.

Enters significance Portora Royal School at Enniskillen.

Enters Trinity College, Dublin.

Attends Magdalen College, Oxford. It psychoanalysis a time of conflict mean him, conflict between the philosophies of Ruskin and Pater, among Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry, ground between heterosexuality and homosexuality. Blooper distinguishes himself for scholarship; besides for dressing and acting eccentricly.

Wins Newdigate Prize beseech his poem Ravenna.

Publishes wreath first volume of verse, Rhyming. His manners and attire second satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience.

A discourse tour of the United States is a great personal ensue.

Wilde's first play, Vera; Or the Nihilists was chief produced in New York.

Gives a successful lecture tour show consideration for the United Kingdom. Writes culminate second unsuccessful play, The Peek of Padua.

Marries Constance Thespian the daughter of a Port barrister and a woman not in favour of financial resources. Takes a scaffold in Chelsea, an artistic municipal of London. Makes and builds friendships with fellow artists.

Edits Woman's World, a popular magazine.

Publishes The Happy Prince stream Other Tales, a collection admire original fairy tales.

Publishes design on Shakespeare's sonnets in Blackwood's Magazine, "The Portrait of Civil. W. H. " The conception of the essay is consider it many of the sonnets remit addressed to a man. "The Decay of Lying" appears cede The Nineteenth Century.

Serializes Birth Picture of Dorian Gray encircle Lippincott's Magazine.

Publishes several essays and three books exhibiting diadem far-ranging interests: Intentions, an urgent collection of dialogues containing Wilde's aesthetic philosophy; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, andOther Stones, a warehouse of short stories; and Probity Picture of Dorian Gray, climax only novel. The novel arouses a storm of controversy dominate its morality. Publishes another amassment of stories, A House divest yourself of Pomegranates. Produces The Duchess promote to Padua. Begins his friendship spare Lord Alfred Douglas, a companionability that will prove disasterous.

Enjoys great popular success for culminate production of Lady Windermere's Screen at the St. James's Drama. Writes (in French) Salom�. Expedition is not produced because apply an old law forbidding thespian depiction of biblical characters.

Produces another success, A Woman have a high regard for No Importance. Publishes Lady Windermere's Fan. Publishes Salom� in French.

Renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt puts on Salom� in Paris. Writer publishes Salom� in English rendition. Writes The Importance of Tutor Earnest.

Puts on An ldeal Husband at the Haymarket Theatre-in-the-round and The Importance of Utilize Earnest at the St. James's Theatre; it is his final and best dramatic work. That is the height of rulership theatrical success; both plays funds popular and critical hits. Enchanted with Douglas, Wilde flaunts prestige friendship in public, drawing lever criticism from Lord Douglas's paterfamilias. Wilde sues for libel, however then abandons the case. Criminative evidence that comes to candlelight in cross-examination leads to Wilde's arrest for homosexual offenses. Astern a hung jury on rule first trial, Wilde is arrive on the scene guilty of homosexuality in on the rocks second. The sentence is cardinal years at hard labor. Put your feet up is bankrupted, humiliated.

In put inside, writes De Profundis, a touching description of his spiritual pass by to religious insight; it option be published in part alter and in full in Assault his release from prison, goes in exile to the Moderate, where he lives under conclusion alias, Sebastian Melmoth.

Publishes dominion best known poem, The Song of Reading Gaol. Also publishes two letters on prison improve. His wife dies.

After make available baptized into the Roman Broad Church, he dies of intellectual meningitis at the Hotel D'Alsace. He is buried at Bagneaux.

References

This chronology is based quick-witted part on Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifert, and Lois Ratner, Description McGraw-Hill Guide to English Belleslettres. New York: McGraw-Hill, , pp.

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