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Wilde in different times Brief introduction of Wilde’s lifeA list of his worksThe trial of wilde His wisdom quotes  Wilde and his love His Dramatic Life Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde. Sir William was Irelands leading surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services to medicine.He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the citys poor, in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin, was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. In June 1855 In June 1855, the family moved to Merrion Square in a fashionable residential area, where Wildes sister, Isola, was born in 1856. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Fermanagh from the ages of nine to sixteen. After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874, He was an outstanding student, and won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878 and where he became a part of the Aesthetic movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life. While at Magdalen, he won the 1878 Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna, which he read out at Encaenia; he failed, to win the Chancellors English Essay Prize for an essay that would be published posthumously as The Rise of Historical Criticism (1909). In November 1878, he graduated with a double first in classical moderations and Literae Humaniores, or Greats. In London, he met Constance Lloyd, daughter of wealthy Queens Counsel Horace Lloyd. She was visiting Dublin in 1884, when Oscar was in the city to give lectures at the Gaiety Theatre. He proposed to her, and they married on May 29, 1884 in Paddington, London. Constances allowance of ￡250 allowed the Wildes to live in relative luxury. The co