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

AIrish

BEnglish

CScottish

DWelsh

Answer:

A. Irish

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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.


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