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Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde 

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Fast FactsBirth name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie      Wills Wilde

Birth date: October 16, 1854

Birth place: Dublin, Ireland

Nationality: Irish 

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Educated:Trinity College (Dublin)Magdalen College (Oxford)

Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor, critic

Period: Victorian era (1837–1901)

Literary movement: Aestheticism

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Father: Sir William Wilde (eye doctor)

Mother: Jane Francesca Elgee (poet and journalist)

Siblings: brother William, sister Isola

Spouse: Constance Lloyd 

Children: two sons - Cyril and Vyvyan

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Famous Works:

The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel)

The Importance of Being Earnest (play)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem)

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• Died: November 30, 1900 (aged 46) in Paris, France

•Resting place: Le Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France

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Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. 

In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays. 

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Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement, which 

emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine is most clearly summarized in the 

phrase 'art for art's sake'. 

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