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by Oscar Wilde


  November 26 Becomes engaged to Constance Lloyd while lecturing in Dublin

  1884 May 29 Married to Constance Lloyd in London

  May /June On honeymoon in Paris and Dieppe

  1885 January Moves into 16 Tite Street

  May The Truth of Masks published in The Nineteenth Century as ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’

  1885 June 5 Cyril Wilde born

  1886 Meets Robert Ross who remains life-long friend and after his death becomes his literary executor

  November 3 Vyvyan Wilde born

  1887 Feb/March Canterville Ghost published in The Court & Society Review

  May The Sphinx without a Secret published in The World. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime published in The Court & Society Review

  June The Model Millionaire published in The World

  November Becomes editor of The Woman’s World

  1888 May The Happy Prince and Other Tales published

  December The Young King published in The Lady’s Pictorial

  1889 January The Decay of Lying published in The Nineteenth Century. Pen, Pencil and Poison published in The Fortnightly Review

  March The Birthday of the Infanta published in Paris Illustré

  July Gives up editorship of Woman’s World. The Portrait of Mr W.H. appears in Blackwood’s Magazine

  1890 June 20 The Picture of Dorian Gray appears in Lippincott’s Magazine

  July/Sept Both parts of The Critic as Artist published these months in The Nineteenth Century as ‘The True Function and Value of Criticism’

  1891 ? January Meets Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie)

  January 26 First production of The Duchess of Padua under the title Guido Ferranti. It opens anonymously in New York and runs only for three weeks

  February The Soul of Man under Socialism published in The Fortnightly Review

  April The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form with additional chapters and a preface

  May 2 Intentions published (comprising The Truth of Masks, The Critic as Artist, Pen, Pencil & Poison, and The Decay of Lying) in book form

  July Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (the other stories being The Sphinx without a Secret, The Canterville Ghost, and The Model Millionaire) published in book form

  November A House of Pomegranates published. It included The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and His Soul and The Star Child, the last two of which had not been published before

  Nov/Dec Writes Salomé in Paris

  1892 February 20 Lady Windermere’s Fan produced at St James’s Theatre

  1892 June A production of Salomé with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role is banned by the Lord Chamberlain

  July Takes cure at Homburg

  Aug/Sept Writes A Woman of No Importance in Norfolk

  1893 February The House of Judgement published in The Spirit Lamp February 22 Salomé published in French

  April 19 A Woman of No Importance produced at Haymarket Theatre

  June The Disciple published in The Spirit Lamp

  October Writes An Ideal Husband

  November Lady Windermere’s Fan published

  1894 February 9 Salomé published in English with Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations

  May In Florence with Douglas

  June 11 The Sphinx published

  July Poems in Prose published in The Fortnightly Review. The Artist, The Doer of Good and The Master are published for the first time

  Aug/Sept Writes The Importance of Being Earnest at Worthing

  October 9 A Woman of No Importance published

  October At Brighton with Douglas

  November A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated published in The Saturday Review

  December Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young published in The Chameleon

  1895 January 3 An Ideal Husband produced at Haymarket Theatre Jan/Feb Visits Algiers with Douglas

  February 14 The Importance of Being Earnest produced at St James’s Theatre

  February 28 Finds Queensberry’s card at Albemarle Club

  March 1 Obtains warrant for Queensberry’s arrest

  March 9 Queensberry remanded at Bow Street for trial at Old Bailey

  March Visits Monte Carlo with Douglas

  April 3 Queensberry trial opens

  April 5 Queensberry acquitted. Wilde arrested at Cadogan Hotel and charged at Bow Street, Bail refused. Imprisoned at Holloway until first trial

  April 24 Sheriff’s sale of all Wilde’s possessions at 16 Tite Street

  April 26 First trial opens

  May 1 Jury disagree

  May 7 Released on bail

  May 20 Second trial opens

  May 25 Convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Imprisoned at Pentonville

  1895 May 30 The Soul of Man under Socialism published in book form

  July 4 Transferred to Wandsworth

  November 12 Declared bankrupt

  November 21 Transferred to Reading

  1896 February 3 Death of his mother, Lady Wilde

  February 11 Salomé produced in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre

  1897 Jan-March Writes De Profundis

  May 19 Released. Crosses to Dieppe

  May 26 Moves from Dieppe to Berneval-sur-Mer

  July-Oct Writes and revises The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  August ?28 Meets Douglas in Rouen

  September 15 Leaves Dieppe for Paris

  September 20 Arrives at Naples with Douglas

  1898 February Returns to Paris

  February 13 The Ballad of Reading Gaol published

  end March Moves to Hôtel d’Alsace, rue des Beaux Arts, Paris

  April 7 Death of Constance Wilde in Genoa after spinal operation

  June/July At Nogent-sur-Marne

  August At Chevennières-sur-Marne

  December Invited by Frank Harris to spend three months on French Riviera at Napoule near Cannes

  1899 February The Importance of Being Earnest published. Leaves Napoule for Nice

  February 25 Leaves Nice to stay as Harold Mellor’s guest at Gland, Switzerland

  April 1 Leaves Gland for Santa Margherita on Italian Riviera

  May Returns to Paris. Stays at Hôtel de la Neva, then at Hôtel Marsollier

  July An Ideal Husband published

  August Moves back to the Hôtel d’Alsace

  1900 April/May Spends two weeks as Mellor’s guest travelling in Italy and Sicily. After Mellor’s departure Wilde stays on in Rome and visits Naples. He then passes ten days with Mellor at Gland before returning to Paris

  May Returns to the Hôtel d’Alsace

  October 10 Undergoes ear operation in hotel room

  November 30 Dies in Hôtel d’Alsace of cerebral meningitis

  1905 February De Profundis first published in heavily expurgated form by Robert Ross

  1906 July Wilde’s estate discharged from bankruptcy. Creditors paid 20/- in the £ and 4% from sales of books.and licensing of plays

  1908 First collected edition of Wilde’s works published by Methuen, in which A Florentine Tragedy, La Sainte

  1908 Courtisane, the complete Rise of Historical Criticism and the poem To L.L. were published for the first time as well as a few additional parts of De Profundis

  1909 Wilde’s remains are moved from the cemetery at Bagneux to Père Lachaise and reinterred under Epstein’s monument. The manuscript of De Profundis is presented by Ross to the British Museum on the condition that it remains closed for 50 years

  1945 March 20 Death of Lord Alfred Douglas

  1949 Suppressed part of De Profundis published by Wilde’s son, Vyvyan Holland, from Ross’s typescript

  1956 First publication of the original four-act version of The Importance of Being Earnest

  1962 Publication of Wilde’s Collected Letters including first fully correct version of De Profundis

  APPENDIX B:

  ORDER OF POEMS (1882)

  ELEUTHER
IA:

  Sonnet to Liberty

  Ave Imperatrix

  To Milton

  Louis Napoleon

  Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria

  Quantum Mutata

  Libertatis Sacra Fames

  Theoretikos

  THE GARDEN OF EROS

  ROSA MYSTICA:

  Requiescat

  Sonnet on approaching Italy

  San Miniato

  Ave Maria Gratia Plena

  Italia

  Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa

  Rome Unvisited

  Urbs Sacra Æterna

  Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel

  Easter Day

  E Tenebris

  Vita Nuova

  Madonna Mia

  The New Helen

  THE BURDEN OF ITYS

  WIND FLOWERS:

  Impression du Matin

  Magdalen Walks

  Athanasia

  Serenade

  Endymion

  La Bella Donna della mia Mente

  Chanson

  CHARMIDES

  FLOWERS OF GOLD:

  Impressions: I. Les Silhouettes

  II. La Fuite de la Lune

  The Grave of Keats

  Theocritus: A Villanelle

  In the Gold Room: A Harmony

  Ballade de Marguerite

  The Dole of the King’s Daughter

  Amor Intellectualis

  Santa Decca

  A Vision

  Impression de Voyage

  The Grave of Shelley

  By the Arno

  IMPRESSIONS DE THÉTRE:

  Fabien dei Franchi

  Phèdre

  Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre:.

  I. Portia

  II. Queen Henrietta Maria

  Camma

  PANTHEA

  THE FOURTH MOVEMENT:

  Impression: Le Réveillon

  At Verona

  Apologia

  Quia Multum Amavi

  Silentium Amoris

  Her Voice

  My Voice

  Tædium Vitæ

  HUMANITAD

  FLOWER OF LOVE:

  APPENDIX C:

  LIST OF ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS IN WILDE’S PUBLISHED WORKS

  Ravenna (1878)

  To my friend George Fleming [Julia Constance Fletcher], author of ‘The Nile Novel’ and ‘Mirage’

  The Happy Prince & Other Tales (1888)

  To Carlos Blacker

  The House of Pomegranates (1891)

  To Constance Mary Wilde

  Individual stories were dedicated to:

  ‘The Young King’: To Margaret, Lady Brooke [Ranee of Sarawak]

  ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’: Mrs William H. Grenfell of Taplow Court [Lady Desborough]

  ‘The Fisherman and His Soul’: H.S.H. Alice, Princess of Monaco

  ‘The Star-Child’: To Miss Margot Tennant [Mrs H. H. Asquith]

  Salomé (1893) In French

  A mon ami Pierre Louÿs (1893) in English

  To my friend Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, the translator of my play

  Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893)

  To the dear memory of Robert, Earl of Lytton in affection and admiration

  The Sphinx (1894)

  To Marcel Schwob in friendship and admiration

  A Woman of No Importance (1894)

  To Gladys, Countess de Grey

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

  In memoriam C.T.W. [Charles Thomas Wooldridge], sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards. Obiit H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7th 1896

  The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)

  To Robert Baldwin Ross in appreciation, in affection

  An Ideal Husband (1899)

  To Frank Harris, a slight tribute to his power and distinction as an artist, his chivalry and nobility as a friend

  APPENDIX D:

  INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS

  ((asterixes denote poems included for the first time)

  A fair slim boy not made for this world’s pain 775

  Against these turbid turquoise skies 869

  *Ah! could I charm the silver-breasted moon 815

  Albeit nurtured in democracy 858

  A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain 836

  An omnibus across the bridge 872

  A ring of gold and a milk-white dove 753

  As often-times the too resplendent sun 841

  As one who poring on a Grecian urn 861

  A white mist drifts across the shrouds 866

  A year ago I breathed the Italian air 778

  * Before the dividing of days 745

  Christ, dost thou live indeed? or are thy bones 771

  Cloud maidens that float on for ever 747

  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand 773

  Could we dig up this long-buried treasure 837

  Dear Heart, I think the young impassioned priest 840

  Eagle of Austerlitz! where were thy wings 836

  Go, little book 872

  *Green are the summer meadows 865

  *Have you forgotten the ship love 759

  He did not wear his scarlet coat 883

  He was a Grecian lad, who coming home 797

  Her ivory hands on the ivory keys 862

  How steep the stairs within King’s houses are 777

  How vain and dull this common world must seem 835

  I am weary of lying within the chase 814

  I can write no stately poem 870

  I have no store 871

  *I love your topaz-coloured eyes 873

  I marvel not Bassanio was so bold 839

  In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks 874

  In the glad springtime when leaves were green 748

  In the lone tent, waiting for victory 835

  I reached the Alps; the soul within me burned 768

  Is it thy will that I should wax and wane 839

  I stood by the unvintageable sea 773

  Italia! thou art fallen, though with sheen 772

  It is full summer now, the heart of June 844

  It is full winter now: the trees are bare 816

  I too have had my dreams: ay, known indeed 856

  I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat 769

  Like burnt-out torches by a sick man’s bed 775

  Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away 774

  My limbs are wasted with a flame 752

  Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire 830

  Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring 772

  * Nettles and poppy mar each rock-hewn seat 769

  Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes 859

  O beautiful star with the crimson mouth 869

  O fair wind blowing from the sea 760

  Oft have we trod the vales of Castaly 777

  O goat-foot God of Arcady 854

  *O Loved one lying far away 765

  O singer of Persephone 795

  Out of the mid-wood’s twilight 874

  O well for him who lives at ease 757

  Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain 770

  Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been 770

  See, I have climbed the mountain side 749

  *See! the gold sun has risen 753

  Set in this stormy Northern sea 851

  Seven stars in the still water 755

  * She stole behind him where he lay 754

  * She took the curious amber charms 873

  * Surely to me the world is all too drear 758

  Sweet, I blame you not for mine the fault was, had 843

  The apple trees are hung with gold 796

  The corn has turned from grey to red 750

  The Gods are dead: no longer do we bring 776

  The lily’s withered chalice falls 805

  The little white clouds are racing over the sky 786

 
* The moon hath spread a pavillion 796

  The oleander on the wall 749

  There is no peace beneath the noon 763

  There was a time in Europe long ago 773

  The sea is flecked with bars of grey 863

  These are the letters which Endymion wrote 870

  The seasons send their ruin as they go 763

  The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky 769

  The silent room, the heavy creeping shade 860

  The silver trumpets rang across the Dome 771

  The sin was mine: I did not understand 871

  The sky is laced with fitful red 864

  * The sultry noon is amorous for rain 762

  The Thames nocturne of blue and gold 862

  The western wind is blowing fair 860

  The wild bee reels from bough to bough 841

  This English Thames is holier far than Rome 786

  This mighty empire hath but feet of clay 776

  This winter air is keen and cold 866

  * Though the wind shakes lintel and rafter 756

  Thou knowest all; I seek in vain 758

  * Through many loveless songless days 864

  Thy prophecies are but a lying tale 766

  To drift with every passion till my soul 864

  To outer senses there is peace 863

  To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear 859

  To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught 826

  Tread lightly, she is near 748

  Two crownèd kings, and One that stood alone 768

  Under the rose-tree’s dancing shade 868

  Was this his coming! I had hoped to see 774

  We caught the tread of dancing feet 867

  Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy 828

  Within this restless, hurried, modern world 842

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  The Works

  The following is a bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde as first published in book form. It includes privately printed first editions but not pirated editions if they predated the former. Piracy of Wilde’s works between his death in 1900 and the discharge of his estate from bankruptcy in 1906 was rife and only halted by the efforts of Robbie Ross, his literary executor, once he had full control of the publishing rights.

 

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