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    A Conversation with Oscar Wilde is an outdoor sculpture by Maggi Hambling on Adelaide Street in central London dedicated to Oscar Wilde. Unveiled in 1998...
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    Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1858 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish writer. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of...
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    Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout...
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    Kingsbury Wilde (26 September 1852 – 13 March 1899) was an Irish journalist and poet of the Victorian era. He was the older brother of Oscar Wilde. Willie...
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    Maggi Hambling (category All articles with dead external links)
    1945) is a British artist. Though principally a painter her best-known public works are the sculptures A Conversation with Oscar Wilde and A Sculpture...
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    Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection of three statues in Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland, commemorating Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde...
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    father of Oscar Wilde. William Wilde was born at Kilkeevin, near Castlerea, in County Roscommon, the youngest of the three sons and two daughters of a prominent...
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    Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying...
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    Cyril Holland (redirect from Cyril Wilde)
    Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland...
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  • Vyvyan Holland (redirect from Vyvyan Wilde)
    second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, and had a brother, Cyril. John Ruskin was Oscar Wilde's first choice as godfather to Vyvyan...
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    Merlin Holland (category Oscar Wilde)
    2006, his book Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters was published, and his volume Coffee with Oscar Wilde, an imagined conversation with Wilde, was released...
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published...
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    The Remarkable Rocket (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    Works of Oscar Wilde. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-8386-3733-3. Oscar Wilde (12 July 2012). The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde. Courier...
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    Lord Alfred Douglas (category Oscar Wilde)
    and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting...
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    graduating in 2002. She derived her professional surname from Irish author Oscar Wilde, and began using it in high school to honor the writers in her family...
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    A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales...
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  • the life of Oscar Wilde focussing on his time in Reading Gaol, but incorporating scenes from throughout his life. It weaves two of Wilde's stories into...
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    Ada Leverson (category Articles with short description)
    a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle. Leverson was born into a...
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  • Oscar Wilde's life and death have generated numerous biographies. Lord Alfred Douglas wrote two books about his relationship with Wilde: Oscar Wilde and...
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  • The Oscar Wilde Centre is an academic research and teaching unit in Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1998, and is located at 21 Westland Row...
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    Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes:...
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    The Canterville Ghost (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    "The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court...
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  • based on Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde. It stars Stephen Fry in the title role, with Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma...
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    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
    a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had...
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    Charing Cross railway station (category DfT Category A stations)
    statue A Conversation with Oscar Wilde is directly opposite the station. It was erected in 1998 and designed for people to sit on the monument and have a virtual...
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    The Sphinx (poem) (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
    The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde, written from the point of view of a young man who questions the Sphinx in lurid detail on the history of...
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  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde, first published in May 1888. It contains five stories...
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    Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman...
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  • The Critic as Artist (category Works by Oscar Wilde)
    Critic as Artist" is an essay by Oscar Wilde, containing the most extensive statements of his aesthetic philosophy. A dialogue in two parts, it is by far...
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    Charmides (poem) (category Poetry by Oscar Wilde)
    was Oscar Wilde's longest and one of his most controversial poems. It was first published in his 1881 collection Poems. The story is original to Wilde, though...
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