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Life and Works: Oscar Wilde attended the Protora Royal School at Enniskillen and excelled at Classics taking top prize his last two years and second prize in drawing. In 1871, he was awarded a Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin. Again, he did particularly well in Classics, earning first in his examinations in 1872 and earning the highest honor the College could bestow on an undergraduate - a Foundation Scholarship. In 1874, he crowned his successes at Trinity with two final achievements. He won the College's Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship (scholarship) to Magdalen College, Oxford. Oscar's father died on April 19, 1876 and the family's finances were not well. Academically, he did very well at Oxford and was awarded the Newdigate prize for his poem Ravenna and "First In Greats" by his examiners. After graduation, Oscar moved to London with his friend Frank Miles, a well- known and society connected portrait painter. In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry. Poems was well received by the critics and helped to push Oscar's career ahead. On May 29, 1884, he married Constance Lloyd. They had two sons in quick succession, Cyril in 1885 and Vyvyan in 1886. With a family to support, he accepted a position in 1887 to revitalize a magazine called The Woman's World. Oscar left the publication in October 1889 and over the next two years, wrote about the folklore and superstition of Ireland and published The Happy Prince And Other Tales in 1888 and The House Of Pomegranates in 1892. Oscar's first play Dorian Gray open in 1890 and was later expanded and published as a book. It's subject of Crimean deviance and lack of morality caused a successful public outrage but made very little money. In February 1892, Wilde opened Lady Windermere's Fan and with its financial success continued to write in the play format. His plays A Woman Of No Importance (1892), An Ideal Husband (1893), and The Importance Of Being Earnest (1893) were all successes and firmly established him as a playwright. In the summer of 1891, he met Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry. They soon became lovers and were inseparable until Wilde's arrest three years later. In April 1895, Oscar sued Bosie's father for libel on the charge of homosexuality. Oscar withdrew his case but was himself arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years of hard labor. Upon his release from prison, Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, his cry of prison agony and it was published in 1898. He spent the last two years of his life wandering Europe, staying with friends, and occasionally writing for different Parisian newspapers. In 1900, a recurrent ear infection became serious, meningitis set in and he died on November 30.
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