Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London.
He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin.
A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German.
At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford.
He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin.
After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.
Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890).
The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama.
He wrote "Salome" (1891) in French while in Paris
but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage.
Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel.
The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.
The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men.
After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897.
During his last year in prison, he wrote "De Profundis" (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure.
On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain.
There he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Vyvyan Holland
Vyvyan Holland, OBE( 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967), born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde in London, was a British author and translator.
He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, and had a brother Cyril.
Conrad of Constance
Saint Conrad of Constance( 900 26 November 975 AD) was a German bishop and saint.
Otho Lloyd
Otho Lloyd( 1885 ‒ 1979) was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff.
He was the elder brother of Arthur Cravan and a nephew of Constance Lloyd Wilde, the wife of the Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde.
Constance Lloyd
Constance Mary Wilde (née Lloyd; 2 January 1859 – 7 April 1898) was an Irish author.
She was also the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.
Where Was I
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Cyril Holland
Cyril Holland( born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland.
Otto III of Hachberg
Otto III of Hachberg( 6 March 1388 at Rötteln Castle – 14 November 1451 in Constance) was Bishop of Constance from 1410 to 1434.
During this time he was the host of the Council of Constance( 1414- 1418).
Although he was the second person named Otto in the Hachberg- Sausenberg line of the House of Zähringen, he is consistently called Otto III in the literature, because he was the third bishop of Constance named Otto.
Otto was the eldest son of Margrave Rudolf III of Hachberg- Sausenberg and his second wife, Anne of Freiburg- Neuchâtel.
Gebhard of Constance
Saint Gebhard of Constance( 949 995 AD) was a bishop of Constance from 979 until 995.
He founded the Benedictine abbey of Petershausen in 983.
His feast day is 27 August.
Motherland (disambiguation)
Motherland is the place of one's birth, the place of one's ancestors, or the place of origin of an ethnic group.
Motherland may also refer to:

Question: Where did Constance Lloyd's husband die?
Answer: Paris