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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1854-10-16 - 1900-11-30

Gender

  • Males

Occupations

Places

Topics

Languages Used

  • English

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Father Cuthbert Dunne Collection on Oscar Wilde

 Collection
Identifier: MS.1973.016
Abstract

This collection contains Father Cuthbert Dunne's collection of papers related to the death of Oscar Wilde and consist of his memoirs of officiating at Wilde's deathbed conversion, correspondence, and transcriptions of newspaper accounts.

Dates: 1900-1957

Bobby Fong Collection on Oscar Wilde

 Collection
Identifier: MS.2015.005
Abstract

The Bobby Fong collection contains notes, correspondence, reference materials, and typescripts concerning the writing of Fong’s doctoral thesis in 1978 and a critical edition of Oscar Wilde’s poetry that he published with his colleague Karl Beckson in 2000. Most of the collection consists of correspondence regarding the publication of the 2000 critical edition, the first ever compilation of every existing piece of Oscar Wilde’s Poetry.

Dates: 1977-2014

T. Perceval Gerson collection on Oscar Wilde

 Collection
Identifier: MS.1961.014
Abstract

Clippings, ephemera, bookseller descriptions, and other material about or related to Oscar Wilde, originally collected by Dr. T. Perceval Gerson.

Dates: 1882-1954

Collection on Robert Harborough Sherard

 File
Identifier: MS.1997.004
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials related to Robert Harborough Sherard, collected by both Glennyth M. Woods and by Francis Watson. Letters and other documents are concerned with the reputation of Oscar Wilde, Sherard's life and career, his views on other literary and social figures of his day, and other topics, such as his views on World War II.

Dates: 1881-1987

A.J.A. Symons Collection on Oscar Wilde

 Collection
Identifier: MS.1966.009
Abstract

Material related to Oscar Wilde from the collection of A.J.A. Symons, including both Symons' own creative and scholarly work, as well as items gathered in the course of his research.

Dates: 1894-1965

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS. Wilde
Abstract

Material described in this finding aid represents the main correspondence portion of the Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle collection at the Clark Library. The collection includes letters by Wilde, his wife, his mother, Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey, Christopher Millard, Robert Ross, and Adela Schuster, among many others.

Dates: 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS. Wilde mss
Abstract

This finding aid described literary and miscellaneous manuscripts related to or composed by Oscar Wilde and his literary circle. Significant manuscripts include drafts of Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and a chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Dates: 1854-1962

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Wildeiana

 Collection
Identifier: MS-Wildeiana
Abstract

This finding aid describes a wide-ranging collection of material relating to Oscar Wilde and to his literary and artistic circle in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Great Britain.

Dates: 1858-1998

Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MS.1928.002
Abstract

Set of newspaper clipping albums compiled by Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927, containing news articles and other clippings related to Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and the larger Wilde circle of colleagues and interests.

Dates: 1909-1926