101 Amazing Facts about Oscar Wilde by Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese

Author:Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wilde, facts, earnest, portrair, dorian gray, educational, happy prince, handbag, windermere, ideal husband, sphinx, tomb, kiss, intentions, learned, irish, homosexual, law, reading gaol, bisexual, much loved
ISBN: 9781783337040
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2014-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Interesting Facts

Wilde’s family were part of a social group that included many well-respected literary and artistic figures including artist John Butler Yeats and writer George Henry Moore.

Wilde was said to have a photographic memory and would often impress his fellow students at Oxford by perfectly recalling long passages of writing.

Although his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is now seen as a great and classic piece of work, at the time many critics were enraged by the book’s apparent lack of morality, something which Wilde fiercely defended.

Despite Wilde being a prolific writer however, it was to be the only novel he published, much to the disappointment of his fans.

Oscar went on a lecture tour throughout the United States, London and Canada to teach aesthetic values in 1879. It was originally meant to last four months but continued for over a year.

In mid-1897, Wilde became the editor of a relatively light-hearted magazine called The Lady’s World.

He was quick to rename it to The Woman’s World and turned it into a much more serious magazine with articles on parenting, culture, politics and debates on fashion and the arts.

In 1891 Oscar lived at 16 Tite Street with wife Constance and his sons. They spent an extensive amount of money renovating their house over the period of seven months to keep up with the wild and lavish tastes about which they were known to preach.

After Oscar’s downfall with the law, Constance took the surname ‘Holland’ for herself and their sons.

Oscar’s former home was put up for sale in 2012 for the tidy sum of £1.295 million.

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