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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Oscar Wilde ( )

Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, ) Speranza

William Robert Wilde

On 29 May 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd. They had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). The photo shows Wilde’s wife and his son Cyril in

John Ruskin ( ), by John Everett Millais

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Walter Pater ( ): “Art for art’s sake”

Lord Alfred Douglas

Wilde and Douglas at Oxford (1893) experientialism.freewebspace.com/ oscar_wilde.htm

Homosexuality “I am the love that dare not speak its name”. Lord Alfred Douglas, “Two Loves” (1894)

Envelope and note that were basis of libel suit The trials of Oscar Wilde (1895) e/images.html

Poster announcing auction of Wilde’s possessions ects/ftrials/wilde/images.html

Reading "In Reading gaol by Reading town There is a pit of shame, And in it lies a wretched man Eaten by teeth of flame, In burning winding-sheet he lies, And his grave has got no name." Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol “And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”

Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas, Naples (1897)

Wilde’s works: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and Other Stories (1891) Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) Salomé (1893) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) De Profundis (1905)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Directed by Albert Lewin (1945)

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Manuscript

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Original production playbill

The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James’s Theatre. Identity in Victorian society

Dandyism ‘ Dandy’ according to OED: “One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’”. dpress.com _image/e/ec/Dandies.jpg

Dandyism

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) ‘ Give me back my cigarette case.’ Allan Aynesworth as Algernon and George Alexander as Jack (1895) Photograph by Alfred Ellis Bunbury and Victorian hypocrisy

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) A middle-class British Victorian family takes tea

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) The countryside: Woolton Wood The city: Central London, Fleet Street around media/DSCF3667.jpg

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Jennifer Scott-Malden as Gwendolen Fairfax, Geoffrey Church as Jack Worthing and Charles Edwards as Algernon Moncrieff, English Touring Theatre (1995)

The Importance of Being Earnest (Dir. Oliver Parker, 2002) Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell: impersonating Victorian society

De Profundis (1905) ‘... Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.’

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A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, London