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	Oscar Wilde
		Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland to Sir William Wilde and Lady Jane Wilde.
		Wilde’s mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a prominent poet, worked as a translator, and wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s under the pen-name of Speranza.
		In 1891 Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the eighth Marquess of Queensberry.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Wilde.html (1284 words)

	The Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lady Wilde, who was 60 at the time and was speaking to a young man, knew what she was talking about and was conversant with what the Victorians termed sin.
		Sir William Wilde was a Renaissance man. He was not only the leading Irish ear and eye surgeon of his time, but wrote books on sociology, travel, literary criticism and antiquities, as well as textbooks on aural and ophthalmic surgery.
		Wilde almost certainly had, as is suggested, a cholesteatoma, a tumour-like mass of cells that may accumulate in the middle ear in patients who have a chronically discharging infection of the ear, and a perforated ear drum.
	alpha.montclair.edu /~DavidsonM/Wilde_syphilis.html (890 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Oscar Wilde
		Wilde's father, Sir William Wilde, published more than a dozen books on archaeology and Irish folklore, in addition to his career as an eminent ear and eye surgeon.
		In 1895, at the height of his career, Wilde was accused by the Marquess of Queensberry of being a sodomite based on his relationship with the Marquess' son Lord Alfred Douglas.
		Wilde lost his suit and was prosecuted by the government for indecent acts.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Wilde.html (652 words)

	Oscar Wilde Biography and List of Works - Oscar Wilde Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wilde was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane.
		Wilde wrote another little-known play (in the form of a pantomime) for a friend of his, Chan Toon, which was called For Love of the King.
		Wilde: "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.
	www.biblio.com /authors/604/Oscar_Wilde_Biography.html (3108 words)

	Oscar Wilde Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir William Wilde, Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, wrote books on archaeology and folklore.
		Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde was a prominent poet, worked as a translator, and wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s under the pen-name of Speranza.
		He died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, alone, in a Paris hotel, under an assumed name; he was buried in the Cimetiere de Bagneux, outside Paris but later moved to Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/o/os/oscar_wilde.html (1191 words)

	Oscar Wilde
		Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854 to the famous Irish surgeon, Sir William Wilde.
		Sir William was a very talented man who was the most notorious ear and eye doctor in Ireland.
		Sir William would thrive so much, he would be appointed Surgeon Oculist to the Queen in 1863, and knighted a year later (Ellmann 6).
	www.svsu.edu /~jmfindla/oscarwilde.htm (2087 words)

	Oscar Wilde - Books and Biography
		Wilde's father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear, who founded a hospital in Dublin a year before Oscar was born.
		Wilde studied at Portora Royal School, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh (1864-71), Trinity College, Dublin (1871-74) and Magdalen College, Oxford (1874-78), where he was taught by Walter Patewr and John Ruskin.
		In the latter Wilde lets his character state, that criticism is the superior part of creation, and that the critic must not be fair, rational, and sincere, but possessed of "a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty".
	www.readprint.com /author-90/Oscar-Wilde (1104 words)

	William Wilde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Robert Wills Wilde (1815–April 19, 1876), today best known for being the father of Oscar Wilde, was a man of prominence in his own day.
		Wilde was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon and he also wrote books on history, archaeology and folklore particularly concerning his native Ireland.
		Wilde married the poet Jane Francesca Agnes Elgee in 1851, also known as Speranza.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Wilde (309 words)

	Cordula's Web. Oscar Wilde
		Prison was unkind to Wilde's health and when he was released on May 19, 1897 he spent his last years penniless on the Continent, in self-inflicted exile from society and artistic circles.
		Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900 in a Paris hotel.
		Wilde was buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux outside Paris but was later moved to Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
	www.cordula.ws /authors/wildeo.html (1298 words)

	Oscar Wilde
		Wilde was not like all of the other young male students and despised sport and violence.
		By 1890, Wilde seemed to have come to the conclusion that the 'evil' in himself could not be controlled, and so explored the theme not within the safe confines of a fairytale, but in a dark, sinister novel with a tragic ending.
		Wilde was imprisoned for homosexual acts in 1895 and went bankrupt before he left the prison.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~mwearley/wilde.htm (604 words)

	The Infidels - Oscar Wilde
		Wilde was deeply impressed by the English writers John Ruskin and Walter Pater, who argued for the central importance of art in life.
		In Wilde's words, the relations were akin to "feasting with panthers", and he revelled in the risk: "the danger was half the excitement." In his public writings, Wilde's first celebration of romantic love between men and boys can be found in The Portrait of Mr.
		Wilde: "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-oscarwilde.htm (5417 words)

	Neurotic Poets: Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His father, Sir William Wilde was a noted eye and ear surgeon, who had several illegitimate children from extramarital affairs.
		Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Elgee Wilde, was a flamboyant and unconventional woman (for her time), a poetess and a nationalist who fought for women's rights.
		Because Lady Wilde had longed for a daughter as a second child, she is said to have often dressed little Oscar in girls' clothing.
	www.neuroticpoets.com /wilde (1826 words)

	The Hindu : A picture of Dorian Wilde
		Wilde's work consists of seven finished plays, one novel, two collections of fairy tales, one of short stories and one of essays, practically all of it written or published between 1887 and 1895.
		When Wilde was being hailed as being "on the very highest plane of modern English drama", Shaw was relentlessly and uncompromisingly anchoring his plays in the social realities of Victorian England - not in the drawing-rooms of Mayfair, but in the tenements of the East End and in suburban houses.
		Wilde, however, twirls before us in his cape and carnation, tossing his hair, and if there is anything his eyes quest after it is our admiration: always the college wit, the Oxford dada.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2000/12/17/stories/1317128k.htm (3333 words)

	Speranza (Jane Francesca Wilde) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir Robert McClure, a cousin, was the discoverer of the North-West Passage.
		Although she was thought to disdain marriage, she married the eminent eye surgeon William Wilde in 1851, and settled at Westland Row.
		After the death of Sir William Wilde, she was in reduced circumstances, and moved to London where she was supported in her later years by her son Willie and the gifts of admirers.
	www.irishwriters-online.com /speranza.html (432 words)

	Oscar Wilde at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Oscar Wilde is most acclaimed for his comic theatrical masterpieces, particularly The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan which feature entertaining plots and witty dialogue.
		Wilde was at the centre of a legal issue involving homosexuality and was imprisoned for two years.
		Wilde's View On Society -- A GCSE/AS level essay, looking at the use of language throughout the play in connection to his views on society.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Wilde (588 words)

	Oscar Wilde
		Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which deals very similar theme as Robert Luis Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde.
		Wilde's fairy tales are very popular - the motifs have been compared to those of Hans Christian Andersen.
		Lady Wilde's third and last child was a daughter, named Isola Francesca, who died young.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /owilde.htm (1646 words)

	bios: Oscar Wilde
		William "Willie" Charles Kingsbury, was born on September 26, 1852.
		Wilde began lecturing on aesthetic values and became a popular lecturer in London (1879).
		Wilde was forced to withdraw his suit, but was arrested and tried for gross indecency in a sensational trial.
	histclo.com /bio/w/bio-wildeo.html (1763 words)

	Oscar Wilde - Biography and Works
		Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin to unconventional parents - his mother Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-96), was a poet and journalist.
		His father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear.
		Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel at the age of 46.
	www.online-literature.com /wilde (1464 words)

	OscarWilde - spack.org/wiki
		It was published in 1905 (long after Wilde's death) with the title De Profundis.
		Prison was unkind to Wilde's health and when he was released on May 19, 1897 he spent his last years penniless on the Continent, under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth in self-inflicted exile from society and artistic circles.
		Wilde was buried in the Cimetiere de Bagneux, outside Paris but was later moved to Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
	www.spack.org /wiki/OscarWilde (1134 words)

	Oscar Wilde Chronology
		Son of Sir William Wilde, founder of the first eye and ear hospital in Great Britain, and Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, a writer.
		Wilde sues for libel, but then abandons the case.
		After a hung jury on his first trial, Wilde is found guilty of homosexuality in a second.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/wilde/wildetl.html (387 words)

	Portrait of a Gent thought to be Oscar Wilde,
		Description: Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, the son of somewhat unconventional parents — his father, Sir William Wilde, though a surgeon by occupation, was also a talented writer, and his mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a well-known poet and journalist who published under the pen name ‘Speranza’.
		During his schooldays, Wilde excelled at classics, and he went on to win scholarships first to Trinity College, Dublin, and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Newdigate Prize for his poem, ‘Ravenna’.
		In 1891, Wilde met Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensbury, and the two soon became lovers.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,portrait-gent-thought,642975.html (414 words)

	Oscar Wilde
		Wilde was influenced by the writings of gay-rights pioneer Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and joined a secret organisation called the "Order of Chaeronea", referring in letters to the campaign for legalization of homosexuality as "the Cause".
		A gay novel Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal attributed to Oscar Wilde, was clandestinely published in London in 1893.
		The novel was probably a combined effort by a number of Wilde's friends and Wilde then corrected the manuscript.
	www.portitude.org /literature/wilde/index.php (3202 words)

	Famine and Diseases in Ireland published by Pickering & Chatto Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first volume in the collection will include a general introduction and a reprint of Sir William Wilde’s, ‘Table of cosmical phenomena, epizootics, epiphitics, famines and pestilences in Ireland’, published in 1856 as part of the preface to the Census of Ireland for the year 1851 (Part V, Tables of Deaths, vol.
		Many of these were from the pen of Sir William Wilde or were commissioned by him.
		William Harty, Historical Sketch of the Causes, Extent, and Mortality of contagious Fever, Endemics in 1741, and during 1817, 1818, and 1819 (1820)
	www.pickeringchatto.com /famine.htm (696 words)

	Sunday Papers "william wilde edition" - Indymedia Ireland
		She knew, they all knew Wilde was about to be arrested, Edward Carson had just proved Queensbury had not libeled Wilde by callign him a thomdomite (an late 19th century popular brand of suitcase), ergo Wilde was guilty of something or other & his enemies were going to bring him down.
		By the time Wilde came out of prison, Mr Yeats was no longer honouring his fraternal bonds and though still spending time in London had at last found a "girlie" who let him go all the way.
		If anything else the process of Wilde's trials and social damnation, of him in his mother's words "facing the english as an Irish gentleman" the effect on the acceptance of "bisexuality" in males has not yet been given full attention.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/76846 (1911 words)

	wilde - Webled.com
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	www.webled.com /wilde.htm (340 words)

	Modern Irish Poetry by James McKeown Kinsale
		Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane, Lady Wilde.
		Lady Wilde was a prominent poet, worked as a translator, and wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s under the pen-name of Speranza.
		Oscar Wilde soon became an advocate of Aestheticism and supported the movement's basic principle Art for art's sake.
	www.sovereignhouse.com /poetry/oscar.html (264 words)

	Amazon.com: "Sir William Wilde": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir William Wilde while under his care as a patient.
		Dublin, and the doctor who was accused of throttling her into unconsciousness and then deflowering her was the famous surgeon, Sir William Wilde.
		The reader might be forgiven for assuming he was on trial for rape.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Sir-William-Wilde (568 words)

	The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
		Parents: Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee
		• Regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era, Wilde wrote and produced nine plays.
		• Nine biographies have been written on Wilde since his death, one of them by his grandson, Merlin Holland, in 1997.
	www.cmgww.com /historic/wilde/fastfacts.htm (109 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lady Wilde": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, Queen Victoria, Trinity College, Bernard Shaw, House of Commons, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Douglas Hyde, Matthew Arnold, George Moore, James Joyce, Queen Elizabeth, Lionel Johnson, Roman Catholic, Aubrey Beardsley, Robert Ross, British Museum, Frank Harris, Ada Leverson, Dorian Gray, William Morris, Arthur Symons, Tite Street, Walter Pater
		It bore the patriotic title `To Ireland' and renewed a plea that Lady Wilde had made in her youth, for someone...
		It was a civil action brought by Miss Travers, who claimed (2,ooo damages for a libel written by Lady Wilde to her father, Dr. Travers.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lady-Wilde (519 words)

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