The Sunday Times - Sunday, April 7, 1895

PERSONAL.

Oscar Wilde is a Dublin man. He was born in that city in 1856, his father being Sir William Wilde, the eminent oculist and erudite Irish antiquarian, and his mother, Lady Wilde, "the eloquent and fiery poetess, 'Speranza,' of THE NATION, in the glorious young Ireland days." Mr. Wilde's full name is said to be Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. He has two sons, one ten and the other nine.

The evidence in the prosecution of the Marquis of Queensbery by Oscar Wilde will cause a run on the latter's book. Counsel for the defence averred that Wilde's literary work was sufficient to justify the action of the Marquis, the allusion being particularly to a novel ("The picture of Dorian Gray"), and a series of magazine articles. Wilde has written several dramas, notably "Lady Windermere's Fan," "Salome," "A Woman of No Importance," "The Importance of Being Earnest," and a tragedy, "The Countess of Padua."