Wilde, OSCAR, born in 1858, the son of Sir W. R. W. Wilde, studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1878 got the Newdigate prize. In 1881 he published Poems; in 1891 The House of Pomegranates; in 1893 Lady Windermere's Fan (a play); in 1894 A Woman of No Importance, Intentions, &c., and Salome (from the French); in 1895 a novel, Dorian Gray. In 1896 he was condemned to two years' hard labour for vicious practices. In 1898 he published A Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Wilde, OSCAR
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