Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills 1854-1900
Irish writer. Renowned as a wit in London literary circles, he achieved recognition with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a novel. He also wrote plays of lively dialogue, such as The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and poetry, including “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898).
Oscar Wilde
photographed in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896)
