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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period

Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period. Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). http://www.commons.wikimedia.org. https://sisenglish.wikispaces.com.

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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period

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  1. Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: The Victorian Period Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips

  2. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

  3. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) http://www.commons.wikimedia.org https://sisenglish.wikispaces.com

  4. Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (Jane Elgee, 1821-1896) Speranza http://www.findagrave.com

  5. William Robert Wilde http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de

  6. On 29 May 1884, Wilde married Constance Lloyd.They had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886). The photo shows Wilde’s wifeand his son Cyril in 1889. http://www.odysseetheater.com

  7. John Ruskin (1819-1900), by John Everett Millais http://www.bestpriceart.com

  8. http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/ruskin/600x/ruskin_600x.jpghttp://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/ruskin/600x/ruskin_600x.jpg

  9. Walter Pater (1839-1894): “Art for art’s sake” http://www.nndb.com/people/622/000096334/

  10. Lord Alfred Douglas http://www.turgingsomedrama.com

  11. Wilde and Douglas at Oxford (1893) http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/oscar_wilde.htm

  12. Homosexuality “I am the love that dare not speak its name”. Lord Alfred Douglas, “Two Loves” (1894)

  13. Envelope and note that were basis of libel suit The trials of Oscar Wilde (1895) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/images.html

  14. Poster announcing auction of Wilde’s possessions http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/images.html

  15. Reading • "In Reading gaol by Reading townThere is a pit of shame,And in it lies a wretched manEaten by teeth of flame,In burning winding-sheet he lies,And his grave has got no name." • Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

  16. The Ballad of Reading Gaol “And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”

  17. Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas, Naples (1897)

  18. Wilde’s works: • The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) • Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and Other Stories (1891) • Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) • Salomé (1893) • A Woman of No Importance (1893) • An Ideal Husband (1895) • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) • De Profundis (1905)

  19. The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890)Directed byAlbert Lewin(1945) http://www.moviemorlocks.com

  20. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) http://www.bl.uk Manuscript

  21. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Original production playbill http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/58876-large.jpg

  22. The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James’s Theatre . http://www.vam.ac.uk Identity in Victorian society http://www.josephhaworth.com

  23. Dandyism • ‘Dandy’ according to OED: • “One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’”. http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/e/ec/Dandies.jpg http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com

  24. Dandyism

  25. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Bunbury and Victorian hypocrisy ‘Give me back my cigarette case.’ Allan Aynesworth as Algernon and George Alexander as Jack (1895) Photograph by Alfred Ellis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James's_Theatre

  26. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) A middle-class British Victorian family takes tea http://www.heardfamilyhistory.org.uk/family%20secrets.htm

  27. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) http://www.lancashiregallery.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/DSCF3667.jpg The countryside: Woolton Wood The city: Central London, Fleet Street around 1895

  28. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Jennifer Scott-Malden as Gwendolen Fairfax, Geoffrey Church as Jack Worthing and Charles Edwards as Algernon Moncrieff, English Touring Theatre (1995) http://www.ett.org.uk

  29. The Importance of Being Earnest (Dir. Oliver Parker, 2002) Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell: impersonating Victorian society

  30. De Profundis (1905) ‘. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.’

  31. Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/2224470530_9a88658281.jpg?v=0 http://www.ovejaselectricas.es/?p=30

  32. A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, London http://commons.wikimedia.org

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