Constance Wilde knows how she appears to the public after her husband Oscar’s 1895 conviction for so-called acts of gross indecency. “The poor little waif, the blinkered wifey,” Constance says ...

In a modern reimagining of Wilde’s classic tale, schoolchildren find refuge in a beautiful garden, but when a snarling, ginger-haired giant arrives, he angrily chases the children away and builds a ...

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that ...

In 1892, playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was a few years away from the trial and imprisonment that would wreck his life and that of his family. Louis Bayard begins his delicately masterful ...

Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Long before Wilde’s infamous libel case, his father ...

Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld, is set to publish author John Boyne's "astonishing" reimagining of the life of Oscar ...

Oscar Wilde was his usual wild self on May 2, 1882… when he played a "Wilde" joke on all of Richmond. His full name was Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, but the world knew him as Oscar Wilde.

When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters. By Stella Raine Chu The Irish writer was ...