Oscar Wilde Fanblog

 Here is a full, comprehensive biography of Oscar Wilde: THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE A Complete Biography EARLY LIFE & FAMILY (1854–1871) Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, the second of three children born to an Anglo-Irish couple: Jane, née Elgee, and Sir William Wilde. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an eminent Victorian and a doctor of aural surgery. He was also a celebrated antiquarian, folklorist, and philanthropist who was knighted in 1864 for his services as medical adviser and assistant commissioner to the censuses of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished men in Ireland in his field, though his personal reputation was complicated by several paternity suits. Wilde's mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, saw herself as a revolutionary and liked to trace her family through an Italian line. An Irish nationalist, she wrote under the pen name Speranza. She attracted artists like herself and established a literary salon devoted to intel...