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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. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · On February 21, Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA and renowned Wilde scholar, presented a wonderfully illuminating exploratory public lecture, using documentary evidence (including letters, bills, invoices, and personal accounts) to elucidate the circumstances surrounding the final days and hours leading to Oscar Wilde’s untimely death from encephalomeningitis at the ...
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May 6, 2021 · Sickly, scorned and impoverished, Wilde died in Paris just two years after writing those words, on November 30 1900. He was 46. The exact cause of his death is still debated. As Michigan Radio reports, some believe that he died of "the ravages of end-stage syphilis," though meningitis and various other causes have been explored.
Jun 8, 2022 · The poem was initially credited to C33 after Wilde’s cell number. He wrote many letters to British newspapers condemning British prisons: “The cruelty that is practised by day and night on children in English prisons is incredible, except to those who have witnessed it and are aware of the brutality of the system.”.
Jan 30, 2024 · And after his death, the manager of the hotel where he had been staying turned Wilde’s room into a shrine for a period of time. Bristow’s latest book, “Oscar Wilde on Trial,” was published in 2022 by Yale University Press. The lecture is free to attend, but seating is limited and advance registration is strongly recommended.
Jan 30, 2024 · And after his death, the manager of the hotel where he had been staying turned Wilde’s room into a shrine for a period of time. Bristow’s latest book, “Oscar Wilde on Trial,” was published in 2022 by Yale University Press. The lecture is free to attend, but seating is limited and advance registration is strongly recommended.
Jan 30, 2024 · Oscar Wilde, two hours after his death, in a photo likely taken by Wilde’s close friend Maurice Gilbert. (Photo courtesy of the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library)
