Oscar Wilde
On the 16th of October in 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born. His father William Wilde was a well known doctor whom was later knighted for his work as a medical advisor for the irish censuses. He would go on to found a hospital using his own money to fund the hospital's treatment of the city's poor. Wilde's mother Jane Francesca Elgee was a poet whom was closely associated with the “Young Irelander Rebellion” that happened in 1848. She was a skilled phonetic whose english translation of pomeranian novelist Wilhelm Meinh would go on to have a dramatic impact on wilde's later writings. When Wilde graduated from Portora Royal School in 1871 he was awarded the Royal School scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin Ireland.
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While in london he would continue to focus on his poetry. Wilde's first published collection called Poems received harsh criticism and very little praise. Although His collection of poems received minimal praise they would help to establish him as an up and coming writer. Through his many lectures and early poetry Wilde began to establish himself as an advocate of the aesthetic movement. On the 29th of may in 1884 wilde would marry an extremely wealthy englishwoman by the name of constance lloyd they would go on to have two sons cyril and vyvyan.shortly after Wilde had began to have an affair with a young nobleman by the name of lord alfred douglas. On february 18 1895 douglass father the marquis of queensberry found out about the affair and left a calling card at wilde's home addressed to “Oscar Wilde: Posing somdomite” a misspelling of sodomite (“Biography.com”). Even though Wilde's sexuality was an open secret he was outraged by the marquises note so much so that he would decide to sue him. When the trial began the marquis and his lawyers presented the extensive amount of evidence on wilde's homosexuality. For example they would use the homoerotic passages from his literary works and his love