Oscar Wilde Biography

- Oscar Wilde appears on the album sleeve of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, by The Beatles.

- He published several books of stories for children, originally written for his own sons: Cyril, who died in the First World War, and Vyvyan, who became a writer.

- Wilde is credited with the invention of the word "dude". It is an amalgam of the words "dunce" and "attitude".

- He separated from him wife and was then tried and convicted, alongside his lover, in 1895 for indecent acts, as homosexuality was then outlawed in the UK. All of his assets were confiscated following the ruling, and after he finished his prison sentence, he moved to France and lived as a pauper. Wilde eventually died in a low-budget Paris hotel, having said, "I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go."