hello and welcome I'm a scarlet and this is light facts literature in a small doses today's bio is Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde is by far one of the most interesting writers of his period somehow either by his Oh brilliant works or his controversial life were simply drawn to this guy so who was asked a wild what was so fascinating about him let's take a look into his life this is light facts Oscar single of Lottie wills Wilde was born on October 16th in 1854 in Dublin Ireland once family was composed by four people William while was his father he was an acclaimed doctor who founded st. marks of Talmadge hospital his mother Jane Francesco LD was a revolutionary poet of the young of London rebellion and wrote poems under the pseudonym of speranza in the weekly Irish newspaper the nation one had a brother called Williams Charles Kingsbury and a sister called by Sola Emily Francesca who died very young from southern fever education one was educated at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland and in Magdalene College in Oxford there one became involved in the athletic movement that is odd for the sake of a knot after graduating he moved to London to pursue his literary career work life in 1882 while travel from London to New York to embark on an American lecture to while not lecturing Wilde met some of the leading American scholars and literary figures of the time such as Walt Whitman Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry longfellow on May 29th in 1884 Oscar Wilde married Constance Lloyd and they had two kids together cyril and Lillian from 1887 to 1889 while work revitalizing the Women's World magazine the next six years were to be called the most creative field of his life he published two children collections the Happy Prince and other tales in 1888 and the house of immigrants in 1892 also in 1890 he published his first and only novel the Picture of Dorian Gray in Lippincott's magazine his first play opened in 1882 and it was ladies Windermere's Fan his second play a woman of no importance opened in 1893 and both an ideal husband and The Importance of Being Earnest opened in 1895 these masterpieces were his last creative fires before he went to prison where we were what did he load to prison but he was a genius and a successful writer what happened well it all started when was commenced an affair where young men called Alfred Douglas it was the third son of the McCoys of Queensbury mad by the relationship SS father sent a calling card at world home address to quote Oscar while posing some demands a spelling sodomite while then sued the McCoys for accusing him of homosexuality thus the famous Queensbury vs. wild trial began however Chris Burris lawyer presented evidence of the wilds homosexuality homoerotic passages from his literary works and love letters to his son hence while was convicted and made hunter v of 1895 and sentenced to two years in prison under the charges of gross indecency Oscar Wilde died in 1900 deer meningitis shortly after being released from prison created using powtoon