OSCAR WILDE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Richard Ellmann | 736 pages | 05 Nov 1988 | Random House USA Inc | 9780394759845 | English | New York, United States Oscar Wilde Trial - HISTORY Navy before working at a Wall Street investment firm. After moving to San In the landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, the U. Supreme Court ruled that all state bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, making gay marriage legal throughout America. The ruling was a culmination of decades of struggles, setbacks and victories along the road The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents The gay rights movement in the United States has seen huge progress in the last century, and especially the last two decades. Laws prohibiting homosexual activity have been struck down; lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals are now allowed to serve openly in the military The ACLU, or American Civil Liberties Union, is a nonprofit legal organization whose goal is to protect the constitutional rights of Americans through litigation and lobbying. James Butler Hickok arrived in Springfield, Missouri, in the summer of , fresh off a stint as Union scout and spy during the Civil War. Live TV. This Day In History. History at Home. Lord Alfred Douglas Wilde kept his homosexuality a secret. He pleaded not guilty on 25 counts of gross indecency. Oscar Wilde died on November 30, , at the age of He was buried in Paris. Adolf Eichmann on Trial. Chicago Seven Trial. KI Oscar Fighter Plane. Wilde was born of professional and literary parents. His mother, who wrote under the name Speranza, was a revolutionary poet and an authority on Celtic myth and folklore. After attending Portora Royal School, Enniskillen —71 , Wilde went, on successive scholarships, to Trinity College , Dublin —74 , and Magdalen College, Oxford —78 , which awarded him a degree with honours. During these four years, he distinguished himself not only as a Classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit but also as a poet by winning the coveted Newdigate Prize in with a long poem, Ravenna. In the early s, when Aestheticism was the rage and despair of literary London, Wilde established himself in social and artistic circles by his wit and flamboyance. Soon the periodical Punch made him the satiric object of its antagonism to the Aesthetes for what was considered their unmasculine devotion to art. Wishing to reinforce the association, Wilde published, at his own expense, Poems , which echoed, too faithfully, his discipleship to the poets Algernon Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and John Keats. In Wilde married Constance Lloyd, daughter of a prominent Irish barrister; two children, Cyril and Vyvyan, were born, in and During this period of apprenticeship as a writer, he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales , which reveals his gift for romantic allegory in the form of the fairy tale. In the final decade of his life, Wilde wrote and published nearly all of his major work. In the latter, his greatest achievement, the conventional elements of farce are transformed into satiric epigrams—seemingly trivial but mercilessly exposing Victorian hypocrisies. I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. The Lady's World ," wrote Wilde, "should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. Beginning in , while he was still serving as editor of Lady's World , Wilde entered a seven-year period of furious creativity, during which he produced nearly all of his great literary works. In , he published Intentions , an essay collection arguing the tenets of aestheticism, and that same year, he published his first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel is a cautionary tale about a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, who wishes and receives his wish that his portrait ages while he remains youthful and lives a life of sin and pleasure. Though the novel is now revered as a great and classic work, at the time critics were outraged by the book's apparent lack of morality. Wilde vehemently defended himself in a preface to the novel, considered one of the great testaments to aestheticism, in which he wrote, "an ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style" and "vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. Wilde's first play, Lady Windermere's Fan , opened in February to widespread popularity and critical acclaim, encouraging Wilde to adopt playwriting as his primary literary form. Over the next few years, Wilde produced several great plays—witty, highly satirical comedies of manners that nevertheless contained dark and serious undertones. Around the same time that he was enjoying his greatest literary success, Wilde commenced an affair with a young man named Lord Alfred Douglas. On February 18, , Douglas's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who had gotten wind of the affair, left a calling card at Wilde's home addressed to "Oscar Wilde: Posing Somdomite," a misspelling of sodomite. Although Wilde's homosexuality was something of an open secret, he was so outraged by Queensberry's note that he sued him for libel. The decision ruined his life. When the trial began in March, Queensberry and his lawyers presented evidence of Wilde's homosexuality—homoerotic passages from his literary works, as well as his love letters to Douglas—that quickly resulted in the dismissal of Wilde's libel case and his arrest on charges of "gross indecency. Wilde emerged from prison in , physically depleted, emotionally exhausted and flat broke. He went into exile in France, where, living in cheap hotels and friends' apartments, he briefly reunited with Douglas. Wilde wrote very little during these last years; his only notable work was a poem he completed in about his experiences in prison, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde died of meningitis on November 30, , at the age of More than a century after his death, Wilde is still better remembered for his personal life —his exuberant personality, consummate wit and infamous imprisonment for homosexuality—than for his literary accomplishments. Nevertheless, his witty, imaginative and undeniably beautiful works, in particular his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his play The Importance of Being Earnest , are considered among the great literary masterpieces of the late Victorian period. Throughout his entire life, Wilde remained deeply committed to the principles of aestheticism, principles that he expounded through his lectures and demonstrated through his works as well as anyone of his era. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. TOP 25 QUOTES BY OSCAR WILDE (of ) | A-Z Quotes Isandlwana Battlefield, Isandlwana. The Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng. Robben Island, Cape Town. The Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl. The Huguenot Memorial Monument, Franschhoek. Union Buildings, Pretoria. The Nelson Mandela statue standing in the garden cost a total of R8 million to construct and weighs 3. Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria. They had two children, Cyril and Vyvyan, but Vyvyan's birth was reportedly quite difficult for Constance. After that, their connection cooled, and Lloyd began spending more and more time away from home, just as the Wildes took in a young man named Robbie Ross It's uncertain when Lloyd realized that her husband was unfaithful. In fact, when Wilde sent another lover — Alfred "Bosie" Douglas — packing after a falling out, it was Lloyd who eventually invited Douglas back into their home and their lives. But it's definitely clear that after Vyvyan's birth, everything changed between Lloyd and Wilde, leading directly to the series of events that would eventually put Wilde in jail and ruin his career. Douglas introduced Wilde to a world of gay prostitutes, which soon became a regular activity for Wilde. However, Douglas' father pictured was a conservative and outspoken man, and he and Wilde had several confrontations about the writer's relationship with his son, culminating with the Marquess leaving a card for Wilde at the author's club, with a message written on it for all the world to see that read, "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite' sic. This was a dangerous accusation, but Wilde had options. Historians note that he could've fled to France , where homosexuality wasn't illegal and just waited for the publicity to fade. But instead, worried about his public image and urged on by Douglas, he chose to sue the Marquess for libel. This was a disastrous mistake, because the only way the Marquess could win was to prove his allegations, which was very, very easy to do. Wilde had never been particularly discreet, and old Bosie was more or less the exact opposite of "restrained. The libel trial ended in the Marquess' favor, and the evidence presented was immediately used to charge Wilde with gross indecency, a crime often used to prosecute homosexuals. A few months later, Wilde was in prison, and five years later he was dead. And it all could've been avoided if Wilde had taken a vacation. Oscar Wilde will always be remembered for his wit and writing, as well as his imprisonment for "gross indecency" in when he was 41 years old. The charges stemmed from his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquess of Queensberry. See, England