Oscar Wilde´s Biography

Oscar wilde was born on october 16,1854 in Dublin. Was an Irish writer, author of some of the most brilliant essays, and comedies in english. When he was 17 he won an entrance scholarship to Trinity College Dublin, Where he gained a scholarship to Magdalen Oxford. He left oxford for London in 1878 and quickly became a popular topic of conversation concerning the strange clothes he wore and the odd poses he adoptes as an aesthete.
Oscar Wilde’s rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the Victorian Era that swept through London in the late 19th century. At a time when all citizens of Britain were finally able to embrace literature the wealthy and educated could only once afford, Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire millions around the world. By the time William Wilde, Oscar’s father, was 28, he had graduated as a doctor, completed a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, North Africa and the Middle East, studied at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, written two books and been appointed medical advisor to the Irish Census of 1841. When the medical statistics were published two years later they contained data which had not been collected in any other country at the time, and as a result, William became the Assistant Commissioner to the 1851 Census. He held the same position for the two succeeding Censuses and, in 1864, he was knighted for his work on them. When William opened a Dublin practice specializing in ear and eye diseases, he felt he should make some provision for the free treatment of the city's poor population. In 1844, he founded St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, built entirely at his own expense.Thought Wilde`s sexual orientation has variously been considered bisexual and homosexual, wilde himself felt he belonged to a culture of male love inspired by the Greek paederastic tradition. In describing his own sexual identity, Wilde use the term "Socratic".He may have had significant sexual relationships with Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd(his wife), Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas("Bosie").Prison was unkind to Wilde's health and after he was released on 19 May 1897, he spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth, after the famously "penetrated" Saint Sebastian and the devilish central character of Wilde's great-uncle Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderered.Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on 30 November 1900. Different opinions are given as to the cause of the meningitis; Richard Ellmann claimed it was syphilitic; Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, thought this to be a misconception, noting that Wilde's meningitis followed a surgical intervention, perhaps a mastoidectomy; Wilde's physicians, Dr. Paul Cleiss and A'Court Tucker, reported that the condition stemmed from an old suppuration of the right ear (une ancienne suppuration de l'oreille droite d'ailleurs en traitement depuis plusieurs années) and did not allude to syphilis. Most modern scholars and doctors agree that syphilis was unlikely to have been the cause of his death.



Bibliography: Library books biography of Oscar Wilde

QUESTIONS:

1. When was Oscar Wilde borned?

2. At what age did Wilde won the scholarship to Trinity college Dublin?

3. Why was the cause of Oscar Wilde's death?

4. What was the sexuality of Oscar wilde?

5. Name two of Wilde's wifes..

Answers:

1. Oscar Wilde was born the 16 Of October of 1854.

2. He won it at 17 years.

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4. Homosexual (gay)

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