|
||||
| ||||
|
|
||||
1854: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is born in Dublin.
1871: begins studying classics at Trinity College Dublin
1874: begins studies at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK)
1878: won Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna; takes degree
1879: settles in London
1881: Poems published
1882: begins one year lecture tour of North America
1883: Duchess of Padua (play) written
1884: marries Constance Lloyd and lives in Chelsea (London)
1885: elder son, Cyril, is born; writes reviews for Pall Mall Gazette
1886: younger son, Vyvyan, born
1887: becomes editor of Woman's World; The Canterville Ghost written
1888: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1889: The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
1891: A House of Pomegranates, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Intentions (essays); meets Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie")
1892: Lady Windermere's Fan is produced; Salomé (written in French) banned
1893: A Woman of No Importance is produced; The Sphinx is written
1894: Salomé is published
1895: An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest produced
1895: sued Marquess of Queensbury for libel; sued by Marquess of Queensbury; found guilty of "unnatural practices"; sent to Reading Gaol (Berkshire)
1897: De Profundis written; released from prison; lives in France, Italy and Switzerland; adopts name of Sebastian Melmoth
1898: Ballad of Reading Gaol published; death of wife, Constance
1900 November 30: dies in France; buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris |
Search the site: Fanlistings: 
|
|||
|
|
||||
|
|
It is currently 09:57am on Monday October 13th 2008.