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As a student at Magdalen College, Wilde finds a mentor in Walter Pater, who inspires Wilde to subscribe to the Aesthetic movement, which promotes "art for art's sake." Wilde develops a reputation for his flamboyant mannerisms.

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Wilde wins a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, where he earns the Foundation Scholarship (the highest honor bestowed on an undergraduate) as well as the Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and the Demyship Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Read Online - The Literature Page

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Isola Wilde dies of a sudden fever. Analysis here.

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Wilde is at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, where he takes First Prize in classics and Second Prize in drawing.

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The family moves to 1 Merrion Square North.

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to William Wilde, a prominent ophthalmologist, and Jane Francesca Elgee, a renowned poet and journalist.

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A timeline of events in Wilde's life*:
*compiled from The Collected Oscar Wilde
and The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

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The basics from Wikipedia.

"Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death."

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