Research on "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Everyone will research and post the following for 3rd marking period Blog as we are about to embark on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray


Aestheticism: a 19th century movement that advocated art for "art's sake"
Decadents: Being in a state of decline or decay
Victorianism: the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.


Biography on Oscar Wilde.
Born: October 16, 1854
Education: Studied classics at Trinity college, Dublin. Won Berkereley Gold Medal. Granted a scholarship to Magadalen college, Oxford.
Married: Married Florence Balcombe
Children: 2 sons Cyril, and Vyvyan
Lovers: Frank Miles, Constance Lloyd, Robert Baldwin Ross, and Lord Alfred Douglas.
Crimes: Convicted of gross indeceny.
Tragedies: Son Cyril dying in WWI and his wifes death.
Death of Wife: After Spinal Surgery in 1898.
Literary Works :
Poetry
Raveena(1878)
Poems(1881)
The Sphinx(1894)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol(1898)

Plays
Vera(1886)
Duchess of Padua(1883)
Salome(1893)
Lady Winderemere's Fan(1892)
A Woman of No Importance((1893)
An Ideal Husband(1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)


Death: November 30, 1900 (Cerebral Meningitis)