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Death Oscar Wilde on his deathbed in 1900. Photograph by Maurice Gilbert. By 25 November 1900, Wilde had developed meningitis, then called "cerebral meningitis".
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Biographies. In 1946, Hesketh Pearson published The Life of Oscar Wilde (Methuen), containing materials derived from conversations with Bernard Shaw, George Alexander, Herbert Beerbohm Tree and many others who had known or worked with Wilde. This is a lively read, although inevitably somewhat dated in its approach.
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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 ...
May 6, 2021 · From his tragic life to his legendary witticisms, Oscar Wilde is an endlessly fascinating study. In one notorious instance, The Huffington Post reports, he attempted to take the Marquess of Queensbury to court for libel, only to find himself imprisoned for "gross indecency" (this being an 1895 definition of "his affair with a young man," the Marquess's son, per Biography).
Jan 30, 2024 · Sean Brenner | January 30, 2024. Oscar Wilde’s life has been examined in minute detail in numerous biographies and countless articles. But the details of his death have been widely misunderstood, according to UCLA’s Joseph Bristow.
Contents. hide. Beginning. Biography. The affair. Trials. Wilde vs Queensberry. The Crown vs Wilde. Quotations. Bibliography. Plays. References. Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet and playwright.
Jan 30, 2024 · Sean Brenner. January 30, 2024. O scar Wilde’s life has been examined in minute detail in numerous biographies and countless articles. But the details of his death have been widely misunderstood, according to UCLA’s Joseph Bristow.