Wilde's mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, was a poet who was closely associated with the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, a skilled linguist whose acclaimed English translation of Pomeranian novelist Wilhelm Meinhold's Sidonia the Sorceress had a deep influence on her son's later writing. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital, entirely at his own personal expense, to treat the city's poor. His father, William Wilde, was an acclaimed doctor who was knighted for his work as a medical advisor for the Irish censuses. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He was imprisoned for two years and died in poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. Unconventional in his writing and life, Wilde’s affair with a young man led to his arrest on charges of "gross indecency" in 1895. As a dramatist, many of Wilde’s plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his most famous play. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England.
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