![]() ![]() He lost custody of his children and the one visit from his wife was to inform him his mother had died. He was kept in a 13 x 7ft cell with planks for a bed and assigned useless work while being ridiculed by guards. ![]() Wilde's plays, poems and sharp aphorisms about Victorian society made him a celebrity in the 1880s and 1890s, but he saw his career crash disastrously when he was jailed for two years at hard labor for the practice of homosexuality and incarcerated at Reading Gaol, a prison near London. His financial position was secured when he married wealthy Constance Lloyd. He later lectured in the United States and Canada, adding to his renown and notoriety-he called Niagara Falls "the bride's second disappointment." Born in Dublin, Ireland to a doctor and a mother prominent in poetry and writing, his father took very little interest in him but provided him with an excellent education: Portora Royal School, studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Newdigate Prize for his poem "Ravenna") He became involved with the aesthetic and decadent movements, then began teaching its values in England. ![]()
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