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* 1895 – Dorothy Wilde, English socialite ( d. 1941 )
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* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
1895 and Dorothy
Bob Monkhouse was born at 168 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent, the son of Wilfred Adrian Monkhouse ( 1894 – 1957 ), and Dorothy Muriel Monkhouse née Hansard ( 1895 – 1971 ).
The couple thereafter had seven children: Edward, Marquess of Hartington ( born 1895 ), Lady Maud Louisa Emma ( born 1896 ), Lady Blanche Katharine ( born 1898 ), Lady Dorothy ( born 1900 ), Lady Rachel ( born 1902 ), Lord Charles Arthur Francis ( born 1905 ), and Lady Anne ( born 1909 ).
* Prince George of Teck, later 2nd Marquess of Cambridge, ( 11 October 1895 – 16 April 1981 ); married 1923 Dorothy Hastings ( 18 May 1899 – 1 April 1988 ).
In 1913, while at Universal Pictures, Reid met and married actress Dorothy Davenport ( 1895 – 1977 ).
1895 and Wilde
* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
* 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons " and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
At his 1895 trials Wilde testified that some of these changes were because of letters sent to him by Walter Pater.
In March 1895, angered by the apparent ongoing homosexual relationship between author Oscar Wilde and his son Alfred, Queensberry publicly called Wilde a " posing somdomite " ( sic ).
On February 15, 1895 Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and Ross approached solicitor Charles Octavius Humphreys with the intention of suing the Marquess of Queensberry, Douglas ' father, for criminal libel.
Following Wilde's disgrace and imprisonment in 1895, Ross went abroad for safety's sake, but he returned to offer both financial and emotional support to Wilde during his last years.
The prevailing public attitude was that homosexuality was a moral failing that should be punished, as exemplified by Oscar Wilde ’ s 1895 trial and imprisonment for " gross indecency ".
The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time of Oscar Wilde ’ s arrest in April 1895, which resulted in Beardsley losing his position at The Yellow Book, to his death from tuberculosis in 1898.
Soon after Wilde was arrested in April 1895 Beardsley was dismissed as the periodical's art editor, his post taken over by the publisher, John Lane, assisted by another artist, Patten Wilson.
* Salomé, play by Oscar Wilde, French ( 1894 ), translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1895.
Their relationship endured and they remained partners for the rest of their lives, a fact made all the more extraordinary by the hysteria about homosexuality generated by the Oscar Wilde trial of 1895 and the Criminal Law Amendment Bill passed a decade earlier " outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact ".
Among his collectors was Oscar Wilde who, after going to prison in 1895, wrote of his bankruptcy in a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, " De Profundis ": " That all my charming things were to be sold: my Burne-Jones drawings: my Whistler drawings: my Monticelli: my Simeon Solomons: my china: my Library ..."
The tradition of elaborate, artificial plotting and epigrammatic dialogue was carried on by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1892 ) and The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1895 ).
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour.
Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years ' hard labour in prison.
He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, and narrowly missed being appointed Poet Laureate, possibly because of his association with Oscar Wilde.
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