Wilde, Oscar
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,_by_Hills_%26_Saunders,_Rugby_%26_Oxford_3_april_1876.jpg "Oscar Wilde at Oxford in 1876 (Source: Wikimedia)")
_from_Vanity_Fair_Issue_812,_April_1884..jpg "Caricature of Wilde in the London magazine Vanity Fair, 24 April 1884 (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Wilde reclining with Poems, by Napoleon Sarony in New York in 1882. Wilde often liked to appear idle, though in fact he worked hard; by the late 1880s he was a father, an editor and a writer.[90] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wilde_time_3.jpg "Wilde reclining with Poems, by Napoleon Sarony in New York in 1882. Wilde often liked to appear idle, though in fact he worked hard; by the late 1880s he was a father, an editor and a writer.[90] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_1889,_May_23._Picture_by_W._and_D._Downey.jpg "Wilde by W. & D. Downey of Ebury Street, London, 1889 (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Sheet music cover, 1880s (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Plaque commemorating the dinner between Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and the publisher of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 30 August 1889 at the Langham Hotel, London, that led to Wilde writing The Picture of Dorian Gray (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Lake Windermere in northern England where Wilde began working on his first hit play, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), during a summer visit in 1891[143] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windermere_Lake_District_from_hill.JPG "Lake Windermere in northern England where Wilde began working on his first hit play, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), during a summer visit in 1891[143] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![St James's Theatre, London in the 1890s. The Importance of Being Earnest was Wilde's fourth West End hit in three years.[160] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St-James%27s-Theatre-London.jpg "St James's Theatre, London in the 1890s. The Importance of Being Earnest was Wilde's fourth West End hit in three years.[160] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the handwritten offending inscription "For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite [sic]". The card was marked as exhibit 'A' in Wilde's libel action. (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somdomite.jpg "The Marquess of Queensberry's calling card with the handwritten offending inscription \"For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite [sic]\". The card was marked as exhibit 'A' in Wilde's libel action. (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Oscar Wilde's visiting card after his release from gaol (Source: Wikimedia)")
![A Conversation with Oscar Wilde – a civic monument to Wilde by Maggi Hambling, on Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square, London. It contains the inscription, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".[247] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Conversation_With_Oscar_Wilde_-_London_-_240404.jpg "A Conversation with Oscar Wilde – a civic monument to Wilde by Maggi Hambling, on Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square, London. It contains the inscription, \"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars\".[247] (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture in Merrion Square, Dublin (Source: Wikimedia)")
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