He was also a close friend of Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, and a friend of his other son Cyril until his death in the First World War.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

Women also wrote for paper, and published under pseudonyms such as Speranza ( Jane Elgee, Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother ), Eithne ( Marie Thompson ), and Eva ( Mary Eva Kelly, wife of Kevin Izod O ' Doherty ).

He has been a Vanity Fair contributing editor and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years, for which he seeks funding.

Australian musician Nick Cave wrote a 5-act play entitled Salomé which is included in the 1988 collection of Cave's writings, King Ink ( the play alludes to the Gospel account, Wilde's play, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's 1869 painting, The Beheading of John the Baptist ).

Caffe Cino playwright Doric Wilson wrote a comic re-imagination of Wilde's Salome entitled " Now She Dances!

Wilde's paper was published on July 10, 1953 .< ref > Wilde used voltages up to only 600 V on a binary mixture of carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and water in a flow system.

The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Soon afterwards, however, their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment.

The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas ( who was on holiday in Algiers at the time ), had planned to disrupt the play by throwing a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright when he took his bow at the end of the show.

As Wilde's work came to be read and performed again, it was The Importance of being Earnest which saw the most productions.

" Later in a letter he said, the play, though " extremely funny " was Wilde's " first really heartless ".

B. Walkey admired the play and was one of few see it as the culmination of Wilde's dramatical career.

Wilde's name did not appear on the cover, it was " By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan ".

The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

" The character of James Vane was also introduced, which helped to elaborate upon Sibyl Vane's character and background ; the addition of the character helped to emphasise and foreshadow Dorian's selfish ways, as James sees through Dorian's character, and guesses upon his future dishonourable actions ( the inclusion of James Vane's sub-plot also gives the novel a more typically Victorian tinge, part of Wilde's attempts to decrease the controversy surrounding the book ).

The former date is also significant in that it coincides with the year in Wilde's life during which he was introduced to homosexual practices.

A large portion of the criticism was levelled at Wilde's perceived hedonism, and its distorted views of conventional morality.

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

* Montez was allegedly the inspiration for Jennifer Wilde's historical romance novel Dare To Love ( 1978 ), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is also a British woman passing herself off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait of Wilde was done the same year as Wilde's trial.

Wilde's printing shop was in Golden Lion Court on Aldersgate Street, and Wilde had a reputation as " a master who grudged every hour ... that tended not to his profit ".

Wilde's original short story was significantly different than the film.

According to the Libel Act 1843, proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes ' testimony was likely to do that.

The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play.

Additionally, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the artist Basil Hallward describes the appearance of Dorian Gray as an event as important to his art as " the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture.

His grave has been vandalized in recent years, with many people mistaking his tombstone for Oscar Wilde's.

In 1893, a few years before Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality, Ross had a sexual relationship with a boy of sixteen, the son of friends.

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.

Robert Baldwin Ross, 1911In 1908, some years after Wilde's death, Ross produced the definitive edition of his works.

Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate shows he was born in the Taff Bargoed Valley community of Pentwyn Deintyr ) ( now known as the Graig ), Quakers Yard, Treharris, in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil but his parents later moved to the village of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley when Wilde was twelve years old.

In the pre-war years Hawkins often worked with the latter and the high-point of this collaboration was Gielgud's staging, during the period of the Phoney War, of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in which Hawkins played the role of Algernon Moncrieff.

The cinematography was by Max Fassbender, who two years previously had worked on Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, one of the earliest cinematic treatments of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

However, other major Australian cities, including Melbourne, would not see the play for the first time until new productions were mounted after Wilde's death.

Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gribsby who pursues Jack to Hertfordshire ( present in Wilde's original draft, but cut at the behest of the play's first producer ).

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

* Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 1893, first performed in Paris 1896 )

However, although the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde's play of ' Salome ', in 1893: which some have claimed as the origin of modern striptease.

After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's operatic version of the same, first performed in 1905, the erotic ' dance of the seven veils ', became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.

As a young Londoner, Ross is alleged to have been Oscar Wilde's first male lover.

The university also holds Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 5 July 1687 and Oscar Wilde's manuscript of The Duchess of Padua from 1883.

Moreover, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), a major corrupting influence on Dorian is " the yellow book " which Lord Henry sends over to amuse him after the suicide of his first love.

Wilde's first stage success came with Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1892 ), which resulted in his becoming the most talked about dramatist in London.

After playing Oscar Wilde's lover John Gray in 1997's Wilde he took his first international role as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the blockbuster film Titanic.

Wilde's first MCA album Teases & Dares was again overlooked in her home country, but fared better in Germany, France and Scandinavia as well as scoring another German Top 10 single with " The Second Time " ( which was Top 30 in the UK ).

In January 1895 Wilde's An Ideal Husband was first performed.

In the first act of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest ( 1895 ), cucumber sandwiches that have expressly been ordered and prepared for Lady Bracknell's expected visit are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew and host, Algernon Moncrieff ; consequently he is forced to tell a little lie, with his butler's connivance: namely that " there were no cucumbers in the market this morning ... not even for ready money ".

His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sam first became familiar with the congressional race when he was sent to talk to Wilde's campaign manager, Will Bailey, on behalf of the Democratic Party to convince him to drop the campaign.

One of the illustrations Aubrey Beardsley produced for the first English edition of Wilde's play Salome ( 1894 )

In 1915, Jemadar Mir Dast, while attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles ( Frontier Force ), was awarded the 55th's first ( and only ) Victoria Cross for his distinguished actions at Wieltie, Belgium.

It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887.

According to some authorities, Bunthorne is based partly on the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were considerably more famous than Wilde in early 1881, before Wilde's first volume of poetry had been published.

The building was situated on the north-west corner ( not north-east contrary to some sources ) of Fifth Avenue and West Eighteenth Street, and was the venue for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America.