2. Oscar Wilde
• Oscar Wilde O´Flahertie Wilde was born on 16
October 1854 in Dublín.
• His father was an important surgeon, his mother was
an Irish nationalist poet.
• He studied at Trinity College in Dublín, and at the age
of 20, he won a scholarship to study at Oxford
University.
• He is remembered for his epigrams.
• He was accused of homosexuality which was illegal.
• He died in poverty of meningitis in Paris on 30
november 1990.

3. Early life
• He is the second of three children born to Sir
William Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde.
• Until he was nine, Oscar Wilde was educated at
home.
• He was a member of The University Philosophical
Society ( A student paper-reading
and debating society in Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland).
• He was raised to the "Sublime Degree of Master
Mason“ in the Masonic Lodge at Oxford.

5. Recognized Works
• 1882 His first book “poems”
• 1888 A collection of stories for children “The
happy prince and other tales”
• 1891 “The picture of Dorian Gray”
• 1895 “ The importance of being Earnest”
• 1897 “De profundis”
• 1898 “The ballad of reading Gaol”

9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Oscar Wilde had been thinking in create a major
novel for some time. One day the sitter at ward´s
studio was a very handsome young man who
impressed him.
• Wilde said the painter that he had created a glorious
creature in this paint, and he said:
• “It would be wonderful if the boy could always
remain young while the portrait aged in his place”.
• Form these beginnings the idea for Wilde´s first and
only novel the picture of Dorian Gray, grew.

12. • In 1889 J. M Stoddart, an American editor
from Philadelphia invited Wilde and Sir.
Arthur Conan Doyle to dinner and asked both
men to write a story for Lippincott´s Monthly
Magazine .
• The picture of Dorian Gray was the result! It
was published in July 1890 issue of Lippincott
´s and went from page 3 to 100.
• After Wilde added six chapters and he also
added the famous preface.

13. Oscar Wilde´s London
• Wilde arrived to London after having
graduated from Oxford University.
• He became both famous and notorious.
• London was a city of extremes and
contradictions.
• The new high society lived in fashionable,
comfortable and elegantly furnished homes
with servants.

14. The bank and Royal Exchange, London (1887) by William Longsdail.

15. • Children received an adequate education according
to their sex.
• Girls were taught to draw, sew, sing and play the
piano in preparation for marriage.
• Boys went to public boarding schools which prepared
them for a career in politics or the professions.
• Child labour was a sad reality of the poor classes.
• London´s streets were congested until the advent of
the “tube” or underground railway.
• The theatre was the most popular form of
entertainment for all social classes.

16. The Savoy Theatre was opened in 1881- First building to be lit by
electricity.

17. The private view of the Royal Academy (1881) by William Powel Frith

18. The Victorian Age
• It was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign
form 20 June 1837 until her death on 22
January 1901.
• She became queen of England and Ireland and
the Empress of India when she was very
young.
• She married with Prince Albert who was her
cousin. They had 9 children and they married
with other European royal families.

19. Queen Victoria

20. • A way based on the ownership of land to a
modern urban economy based on trade and
manufacturing.
• A time of progress: the telegraph, rail ways,
photography, the sewing machine, great
manufacturing cities.
• Britain also had a very important fleet, which
carry the goods to the metropolitan.

22. Early victorian (1832-1848)
• Technological development and the opening
of the reform parliament.
• The State had a system of economic
liberalism.
• There was a great conscious in the society of
children's work.
• The abolition of the Corn Laws to protect
English farm products from having to compete
with low prized products imported .

24. Mid Victorian (1848-1870)
• Confrontation of ideas between the Utilitarianism,
based on the idea that the rightness of an action is
determined by whether its consequences are
conductive to general utility.
• It was a group of writers who were shocked for the
condition of living in some parts of England and they
wrote a series of novels as Elisabeth Gaskell´s “North
and South” and Benjamin Disraelis “Sybil of the two
nations”.

26. Late Victorian (1870- 1900)
• The U.K. had more competitors in trade as the
United States and Germany which was
becoming an empire.
• Workers began to join in associations, which
are called trade unions.

30. The Aesthetic Movement
• Victorian artists experienced a new world
shaped by the Industrial Revolution.
• Artists reacted in different ways.
• Some painted the society in which they lived
in detail and with great realism.
• Others painters, dissatisfied with victorian
materialism found inspiration for their works
in the past, particularly in medieval Italian
paintings.

31. The Derby Day (1858) by William Power Frith

32. The light of the world
(1853 by ) William
Holman Hunt

33. The Pre-Raphaelites
• It was formed in 1848 by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John
Everett Millais.
• The Pre-Raphaelites depicted objects in a very
clear way , and every object and person have
a symbolic meaning as the Middle ages.
• They convey a moral message through their
works.

34. The Weeding of St. George and Princess Sabra
(1857) by Dante Gabriel Rosseti.

35. • During the 1870s the aesthetic movement had
many points of contact with the parallel
European movements of Decadentism and
Symbolism.
• It was inspired by the principle of “art for art´s
sake” which meant that, contrary to the pre-
Raphaelites said, art had no moral purpose.
• “Form was the essence of beauty and beauty
was the highest perfection of humans beings”.

36. Walter Pater

37. • The famous English scolar, Walter Pater
excercised influence on Oscar Wilde and the
Aesthetic movement with his Studies in the
History of the Renaissance (1873).
• The Aesthetic writers broke away from the
confinig conventions, pursuing pleasure by the
cult of beauty and art.
• Wilde was considered a “Dandy”, a man who
gave great importance to his appeareance,
refined and eccentric lifestyle and brillian
conversation.

38. Symphony in white,
The Little White Girl
(1864) by James
Whistler.

39. Aubrey Beardsley
• A young artist that illustrated the English
edition of Salomé in 1893 with a very
important series of prints as The climax.
• The climax: He reduced the scene to flat
surfaces of black and white, crossed by
undulating lines.
• He expressed the decadent fascination whit
eros and blood, and he anticipated the
caracters of the “Art Nouveau” of the 20th
century.

40. The Climax by Aubrey Beardsley.