Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

Within weeks of the Stonewall Riots, Craig Rodwell, proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in lower Manhattan, was working to commemorate them by replacing the Annual Reminder, which had been held annually in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia since 1965, with a celebration of the Stonewall Riots.

The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse (' The Treatise of the Narcissus ', 1891 ), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Richard Ellmann argues that Wilde had reached his artistic maturity and wrote this work more surely and rapidly than before.

Wilde hesitated about submitting the script to Alexander, worrying that it might be unsuitable for the St. James's Theatre, whose typical repertoire was relatively serious, and explaining that it had been written in response to a request for a play " with no real serious interest ".

Richard Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s – the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

While Wilde had long been famous for dialogue and his use of language, Raby ( 1988 ) argues that he achieved a unity and mastery in Earnest that was unmatched in his other plays, save perhaps Salome.

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

Wilde went on to say that the notion behind The Picture of Dorian Gray is " old in the history of literature " but was something to which he had " given a new form.

Literary critic Richard Ellmann writes: Wilde does not name the book but at his trial he conceded that it was, or almost, Huysmans's A Rebours ... To a correspondent he wrote that he had played a ' fantastic variation ' upon A Rebours and some day must write it down.

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 ".

In April 1937 he had read a short story by Hagar Wilde in Collier's magazine called Bringing Up Baby and immediately wanted to make a film out of it.

Hawks had decided that Wilde would develop the characters and comedic elements of the script, while Nichols would take care of the story and structure.

Wilde dropped the libel case when Queensberry's lawyers informed the court that they intended to call several male prostitutes as witnesses to testify that they had had sex with Wilde.

Queensberry won a counterclaim against Wilde for the considerable expenses he had incurred on lawyers and private detectives in organising his defence.

Schwob had met Whistler in the mid-1890s through Stéphane Mallarmé they had other mutual friends including Oscar Wilde ( until they argued ) and Whistler's brother-in-law, Charles Whibley.

He was replaced as Chairman by Jersey-based businessman Michael Wilde who had become the club's major shareholder.

By now, Michael Wilde and Rupert Lowe had replaced Leon Crouch as chairmen, and the new board brought in the relatively unknown Dutchman Jan Poortvliet as manager.

However in the 2002 film version which starred Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon-the lines were dropped even though this film re-incorporated episodes and characters in an earlier version of the play that Wilde had been encouraged to drop before the play's first performance.

He is best known as the executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde, to whom he had been a lifelong friend.

The record books often show that Wilde started boxing professionally in 1911 but it is widely assumed ( and later confirmed by boxing analysts ) that he had been fighting professionally for at least four years before that.

* Ricky Wilde ( b. 1961 ), British songwriter, musician, record producer, landscape gardener

Ricky Wilde ( born Ricky Smith, 6 November 1961 ) is a British songwriter, musician, record producer and brother of singer Kim Wilde, and son of the singer and actor, Marty Wilde.

At the age of eleven, Wilde was signed by record producer Jonathan King to King's UK record label, and released his first single in November, 1972, called " I Am An Astronaut ".

Prior to Mitschnacker the songs Schwarzbrot-Weißbrot ( Blackbread-Whitebread ) and Schule der Gewalt ( School of Violence ) appeared on the sampler, Endzeit 93, from the Independent record label Wilde Welt Records.

In 2006, Wilde signed a new record deal with EMI Germany and released the first single from her tenth studio album in many countries across Europe, Scandinavia and Asia.

Kim Wilde holds the record for being the most-charted British solo female act of the 1980s, with seventeen UK Top 40 hit singles throughout the decade ( including her duets with Junior Giscombe and Mel Smith ).

Marvin was impressed and introduced him to DeCoster and Wilde, who got him to record a rap for " Money Money ", a track that was being planned as a future Bizz Nizz single.

The antics of Coochy Cooty and paintings like " Oscar Wilde In Leadville " and " Appetite for Destruction ", which was featured as the cover for the Guns N ' Roses album of the same name, before controversy forced record company Geffen Records to move it to the inside sleeve, have raised many an eyebrow.

" However, there is no record of any such event, which Simon Wilde says, " suggests, fairly conclusively, it never happened.

Later on, as songwriter and / or record producer, he masterminded a string of 1980s hits for his daughter Kim Wilde.

* The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular songs, including " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word " written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, " Four Letter Word " written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, " 4 Letter Word " written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook.

* 1982 ' Lady Windermere's Fan ' by Oscar Wilde, broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre slot on BBC Radio 4.

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Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten.

After she and Dr. Stevie began associating themselves with the returning Raven, Daffney defeated Wilde with their help in a rematch on the June 4 edition of Impact with her swinging fisherman suplex named the Lobotomy.

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Oscar Wilde: the critical heritage, Volume 1970, Part 2 Routledge p. 434 ISBN 0-7100-6929-4, ISBN 978-0-7100-6929-0

* May 25 – Oscar Wilde is convicted of " sodomy and gross indecency " and is sentenced to serve 2 years in prison at Reading.

Legal costs of £ 2, 000 were awarded against Lady Wilde.

Mary Travers won the case and costs of £ 2, 000 were awarded against Lady Wilde.

Thomas Wilde is commemorated by a Blue plaque erected on the front of 2 Kelvin Avenue Bowes Park London N13 which reads:

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Kim Wilde ( born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960 ) is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart New Wave classic " Kids in America ".

As they still owned the rights to the name " 2 Unlimited ", DeCoster and Wilde recruited two new ( again Dutch ) singers, Romy van Ooijen ( b. 18 November 1971 ) and Marjon van Iwaarden ( b. 18 June 1974 ), in order to capitalise on previous success.

* Actors: Leslie Howard ( László Steiner ) ( UK ) 2 nominations ( 1934, 39 ), Cornel Wilde one nom.

He regained his power in May 2008, teaming up with Michael Wilde, who had previously forced Lowe out, becoming chairman of the club's parent company, Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC, before resigning on 2 April 2009 after the company was placed into administration.

The station's alumni include Brent Carey ( went on to WDRQ & WDVD Detroit, and PD of WIOG Saginaw, WTWR-FM Toledo, and KCIX / KXLT in Boise, ID ), McConnell " Man @ Large " Adams ( went on to WIOG, WDRQ, KKDA / K-104 ( APD / Nights ) Dallas Texas, My 103. 9 and Wild 96. 3 in Ft. Wayne, and KFAT 92. 9 in Anchorage, Alaska, Aaron Santini ( KKHQ PD in Waterloo, Iowa ), WQAL ( Cleveland ) morning jock Rebecca Wilde, Radio Disney jock Aaron K., Craig Russell, who did 2 tours of duty in the Alpine City, hosted both the Morning Hustle ( 1993 – 1995 ) and the Afternoon Hustle ( 1999 – 2004 ); he is now at WFGR in Grand Rapids ; Andrew Delancey ( now producing television news in Tampa, and doing afternoon news for the statewide " Smile FM " contemporary Christian music network ), and former WDRQ ( Detroit ) jock Jake Edwards ( now on WDVD ).