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Oscar Wilde
left: Oscar and Constance Wilde with their son Cyril in 1892, © Merlin Holland
right: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), photographed at Magdalen College, Oxford in May 1893, © National Portrait Gallery
When Oscar Wilde married Constance Lloyd on 29 May 1884, he was a few months short of his thirtieth birthday, and Constance was twenty-five.
Although Wilde was well-known as a wit and a lecturer – and for his colourful and a flamboyant personality – his writings had not yet made much impact.
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He had written two plays, Vera, or the Nihilists in 1880, and The Duchess of Padua in 1883, but these melodramatic tragedies had attracted little interest. Vera ran for one week in New York in 1882 and The Duchess of Padua was not staged until 1891, when it had a three-week run, again in New York.
Wilde had also been writing poetry since he was an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, and in 1881 he had published a collection of his v