Oscar Wilde

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Standard Name: Wilde, Oscar
Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose in England was not reversed until the modernists returned to the struggle for unfettered aesthetic expression. A leading proponent of art for art's sake in England, OW was a follower of Walter Pater , from whose work he borrows in lavish quantity, and, like Pater, he was much influenced by the French l'art pour l'art poets, notably Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier .
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
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More recently, his brilliant aesthetic essays have drawn serious attention as the basis for many critical propositions . . . which we like to attribute to more ponderous names.
Ellmann, Richard, editor. The Critic as Artist: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Random House, 1969.
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His notoriety as a casualty of oppressive laws against the practice of homosexuality is also the subject of a good deal of recent critical comment.
Black and white photograph of Oscar Wilde sitting

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Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB continued after this to maintain a rate of about one new novel a year. In Gerard, which appeared in 1891, she combined elements from Goethe 's Faust with others from Balzac 's La...
Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
Within a year of reaching Londonon the crest of the wave that was sweeping away Victorian tradition,
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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ES found herself attached to the group of writers that had formed around The Yellow Book...
Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
ES was sustaining an extremely high rate of publication at the turn of the century. Her books for children included The Other Boy, 1902 (a comment on the sexual panic flowing from the Oscar Wilde
Textual Production Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Biographer Joy Melville notes that a bibliography of Swedenborg's work lists Speranza as the translator but, pages later denies her this role. In his biography of Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann credits her with the...
Textual Production Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
While pregnant with her second son this year, she found writing a difficult fit with her family life. She expressed in her letters a suspicion that her heart had cooled down into such a dull...
Textual Production Ada Leverson
The Green Carnation, a novel caricaturing Oscar Wilde , appeared anonymously and was thought by Wilde to be by AL : its author was actually Robert Hichens .
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Stories she designed for particular sets of readers around this time, especially those for the Fabian New Age, show the edge of professionalism. She had already written bowdlerised versions of Baudelaire and Wilde ...
Textual Production Ada Leverson
AL wrote to T. S. Eliot (editor of The Criterion) offering him an essay on Wilde , something on Proust , and a short story, The Consultation.
Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963.
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Textual Production Ngaio Marsh
NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...
Textual Production Michael Field
Oscar Wilde , William Archer , and John Gray were in the audience on the opening night.
Field, Michael. “Introduction”. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough, edited by R. K. R. Thornton and Ian Small, Woodstock Books, 1993.
Wilde had written to the authors with casting advice. He suggested they should have the theatre's founder, J. T. Grein
Textual Production Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Many of JFLW 's letters (mostly to Oscar ) are held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. Other letter collections are held at the University of Reading (which has typed...
Textual Production Henry James
He had been too anxious to attend his own play, and arrived at the theatre only as the curtain fell, having attended instead a performance of Oscar Wilde 's An Ideal Husband. He wrote...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
SB began reviewing for the New York Review of Books by 1963, and covered a wide range of genres: literary history (a book on Oscar Wilde ), fiction (Graham Greene ), travel writing (...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
Its title alludes to Oscar Wilde 's A Woman of No Importance.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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DS 's American publisher, Little, Brown was shocked at the novel's homosexual content and its likely impact on her readership. They...
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.

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