title: Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction
author: A. Kingston
description: <span>"[A] welcome new book ... [Kingstoncasts] a new light on [Wilde's] personal life and his milieu ... [and she] writes with enthusiasm and vigour ... The sections on Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Aubrey Beardsley, Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw are particularly valuable ..."--</span><span>Donald Mead, <i>The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies</i> (No 34, January 2009)</span><br /><br /><span>"[Kingston] has uncovered a wealth of biographical detail beyond the standard biographies [and has created] an extraordinarily intricate and vivid depiction of the web of [Wilde's] social and literary relations ... [She provides] a sort of communal biography of writers, which allows the reader an informative glimpse at the literary scene in late nineteenth-century London ... a real biographical treat."--</span><span>Lucia Krmer, <i>The Oscholars</i> (No 46, September/October 2008)</span>
zlib_text: About Wilde:  
  
  
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)
  was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his
  barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian
  London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a
  famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years
  of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". The
  scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not
  amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time.
  
  Source: Wikipedia
  
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