Oscar Wilde

Chronology of Oscar Wilde

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1854:	Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin.
1871:	began studying classics at Trinity College Dublin
1874:	began studies at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK)
1878:	won Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna; takes degree
1879:	settled in London
1881:	Poems published
1882:	began one year lecture tour of North America
1883:	Duchess of Padua (play) written
1884:	married Constance Lloyd and lived in Chelsea (London)
1885:	elder son, Cyril, born; writes reviews for Pall Mall Gazette
1886:	younger son, Vyvyan, born
1887:	became 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 produced; Salomé (written in French) banned
1893:	A Woman of No Importance produced; The Sphinx written
1894:	Salomé 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; lived in France, Italy and Switzerland; adopted name of Sebastian Melmoth
1898:	Ballad of Reading Gaol published; death of his wife, Constance
30 November 1900:	died in France; buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris

Sources:
Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (London: Hamish Hamilton 1987)
Philippe Jullian, Oscar Wilde (London: Constable 1969)

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