The card read: “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite. He left a calling card for Wilde with the porter at the private Albemarle Club in London. But in 1891, Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, a young British poet and aristocrat 16 years his junior.ĭouglas’ father, the Marquess of Queensberry, was outraged by the relationship and sought to expose Wilde. He bucked tight-laced Victorian fashion by wearing colorful velvets and silks and keeping his hair long. Oscar Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic Movement in art and literature, which suggested these forms should focus on beauty rather than trying to convey a moral or political message. His most acclaimed plays include Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest, though he is perhaps best known today for his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He later moved from Ireland to England and studied at Oxford.īy the early 1890s he had become one of London’s most popular playwrights.
Oscar Wilde began publishing poems as a college student at Dublin’s Trinity University in the 1870s. Homosexuality was a criminal offense at this time in England.
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Wilde, a homosexual, was put on trial for gross indecency in 1895 after the details of his affair with a British aristocrat were made public. His flamboyant dress, cutting wit and eccentric lifestyle often put him at odds with the social norms of Victorian England. Oscar Wilde was a playwright, novelist, poet and celebrity in late nineteenth century London.
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