Question

Oscar Wilde was an ................ writer

• A. Irish
• B. English
• C. Scottish
• D. Welsh

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Irish

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, art critic and author of numerous short stories, and one novel.

• He became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

• Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-1896), was a successful poet and journalist.

• She wrote patriotic Irish verse under the pseudonym "Speranza".

• Young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German and he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford.