During his time in prison, he wrote a scathing rebuke to Lord Alfred, published in 1905 as De Profundis. The result of his inability to prove slander was his own trial on charges of sodomy, of which he was found guilty and sentenced to two years of hard labor. In 1895, after being publicly insulted by the marquess, Wilde brought an unsuccessful slander suit against the peer. Lord Alfred was the son of the Marquess of Queensbury, who objected to his son's spending so much time with Wilde because of Wilde's flamboyant behavior and homosexual relationships.
Performed in Paris in 1896, the play was translated and published in England in 1894 by Lord Alfred Douglas and was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. During this period he also wrote Salome, in French, but was unable to obtain a license for it in England. That is all." In 1891 Wilde published A House of Pomegranates, a collection of fantasy tales, and in 1892 gained commercial and critical success with his play, Lady Windermere's Fan He followed this comedy with A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and his most famous play, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Wilde simultaneously dismissed and encouraged such criticism with his statement in the preface, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. During this period he wrote, among others, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), his only novel, which scandalized many readers and was widely denounced as immoral. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, the daughter of an Irish lawyer, and within two years they had two sons. His first published volume, Poems, which met with some degree of approbation, appeared at this time. Largely on the strength of his public persona, Wilde undertook a lecture tour to the United States in 1882, where he saw his play Vera open-unsuccessfully-in New York.
By 1879 he was already known as a wit and a dandy soon after, in fact, he was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. He was born to a middle-class Irish family (his father was a surgeon) and was trained as a scholarship boy at Trinity College, Dublin. Flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career.
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