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01
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1877
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At Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde moves into the
three-room set designated ‘Kitchen Stairs 1 pair left’, now one very large
room known as ‘The Oscar Wilde Room’ (Rooms Register, Magdalen
Archives). [PV]
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|
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01
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1883
|
Wilde in Paris, first at the Hôtel Continental and then
at the Hôtel Voltaire [till ?May] and is visited by Sickert.
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01
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1891
|
William Morris meets Wilde at the Richmonds.
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01
|
1891
|
Wilde meets Lady Blanche Hozier.
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01
|
1891
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘London Models’ in The
English Illustrated Magazine.
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|
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01
|
1891
|
Wilde and Constance at first night of ‘Macbeth’
(Irving, Ellen Terry).
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|
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01
|
1891
|
Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas for the first time.
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|
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01
|
1891
|
Rhymers’ Poetry reading at Herbert Horne’s. Wilde there
with John Gray.
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|
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01
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1891
|
Sherard sees ‘much’ of Wilde in London.
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01
|
1895
|
Wilde and Carson meet in the Strand.
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01
|
1897
|
Wilde begins
‘De Profundis’.
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01
|
1897
|
Wilde is allowed to let his hair grow.
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01
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01
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1885
|
The Wildes move to 16 Tite Street, Chelsea.
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04
|
01
|
1895
|
Gilbert Burgess interviews Wilde for ‘The Sketch’.
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05
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01
|
1885
|
Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre
on ‘Dress’ (CL, p.244). [PV]
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06
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01
|
1885
|
Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre
on ‘The Value of Art in Modern Life’ (CL,
p 244). [PV].
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08
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01
|
1885
|
Wilde
probably present at Sidney Webb’s lecture, Kelmscott House, on ‘The Irish
National Movement and its bearing on Socialism’.
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11
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01
|
1854
|
Birth of William Welsford ‘Bouncer’ Ward [PV]
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12
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01
|
1906
|
Charles
Hemphill, great uncle of Constance Wilde, raised to the peerage.
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12
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01
|
1906
|
First performance of Wilde’s Florentine Tragedy
in Berlin, directed by Max Reinhardt.
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13
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01
|
1894
|
Constance Wilde opens a ‘fancy bazaar’ for the
Ferdinand Place Mission Schoolroom, Chalk Farm.
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17
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01
|
1895
|
Wilde visits Algiers with Lord Alfred Douglas.
|
|
18
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01
|
1885
|
Wilde lectures at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (CL,
p. 245) [PV]
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|
19
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01
|
1875
|
J.E.C.
Bodley encounters Oscar Wilde with Willie at the Victoria Music Hall,
Oxford.
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|
19
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01
|
1885
|
Evening: Wilde lectures in the New Assembly Hall,
Sunderland on ‘Dress’ (local newspaper).
[PV]
|
|
20
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01
|
1888
|
Publication
of Wilde’s ‘From the Poets’ Corner’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
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|
21
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01
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures at Firth College, Sheffield on ‘The
House Beautiful (CL, p.224). [PV]
|
|
23
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01
|
1884
|
8 p.m.: Wilde lectures in the Queen Street Assembly
Rooms, Huddersfield on ‘The House Beautiful’ (Geoff Dibb, ‘Oscar Wilde’s
Lectures in West Yorkshire, The Wildean 3 nd). [PV]
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|
26
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01
|
1884
|
8 p.m.: Wilde lectures at the Dean Clough Institute,
Halifax on The House Beautiful’ (Geoff Dibb, ‘Oscar Wilde’s Lectures in
West Yorkshire, The Wildean 3 nd). [PV]
|
|
26
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01
|
1889
|
Publication
of Wilde’s ‘The New President’ in The Pall Mall Gazette.
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|
28
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01
|
1864
|
William
Wilde knighted.
|
|
28
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01
|
1897
|
More Adey visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.
|
|
30
|
01
|
1895
|
Fifteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Algiers.
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|
31
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01
|
1872
|
Wilde placed third in Exam Honours.
|
|
31
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01
|
1881
|
Opening night of the Tennyson’s play ‘The Cup’ at the
Lyceum, where Florence Balcombe begins her acting career with a small part
alongside Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Wilde attends the performance and
sends some flowers to his former beloved.
[DG]
|
|
31
|
01
|
1884
|
Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Grand Saloon of the
York Fine Art and Industry Exhibition Hall on ‘The House Beautiful’.
Evening: Wilde lectures in the Grand Saloon of the York
Fine Art and Industry Exhibition Hall on ‘Personal Impressions of America’
(Geoff Dibb, ‘Oscar Wilde in York’, The Wildean 13, July 1998). [PV]
|
|
31
|
01
|
1895
|
Wilde returns from Algiers. First night of ‘An Ideal Husband’ at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket. [DG]
|
|
|
|
|
02
|
1869
|
Wilde goes to Portora Royal School, Enniskillen [to
1871].
|
|
|
02
|
1883
|
Sickert meets Wilde.
|
|
|
02
|
1889
|
The Wildes entertain Boucicault.
|
|
|
02
|
1889
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Some Literary Notes’ in ‘Woman’s
World’.
|
|
|
02
|
1891
|
Wilde at a meeting of the Rhymers’ Club at 20 Fitzroy
Street.
|
|
|
02
|
1892
|
Wilde chairs a public meeting.
|
|
|
02
|
1893
|
Wilde at a dinner party chez George Louis.
|
|
|
02
|
1893
|
Wilde meets
Debussy.
|
|
|
02
|
1899
|
Publication of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. Wilde sends inscribed copy to William
Archer.
|
|
|
02
|
1899
|
Wilde visits
Constance’s grave.
|
|
01
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘Personal Impressions of America’,
Londesborough Theatre, Scarborough (stayed at Pavilion Hotel,
Westborough). [GD]
|
|
03
|
02
|
1889
|
Dowson has suggested to Jean Thorel that he send Wilde
a copy of ‘La Complainte Humaine’.
|
|
04
|
02
|
1880
|
First cartoon of Wilde by George du Maurier appears in Punch.
|
|
04
|
02
|
1880
|
Wilde one of 350 guests (all men) at Irving’s party at
the Lyceum.
|
|
04
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘"The House Beautiful" with
special reference to Women’s Work in House Decoration’, Mechanics’ Hall,
Darlington. [GD]
|
|
05
|
02
|
1889
|
Wilde present at Shaw’s lecture to the Church &
Stage Guild on ‘Acting, by one who does not believe in it’.
|
|
08
|
02
|
1890
|
Publication of Wilde’s review of ‘Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist
and Social Reformer’ in ‘The Speaker’.
|
|
11
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘Personal Impressions of America’
(afternoon) and ‘The House Beautiful’ (evening), Albert Hall, Mechanics’
Institute, Leeds.
|
|
11
|
02
|
1896
|
Salome is produced at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in
Paris, with Aurélien Lugné-Poé (Hérode) and Lina Munt (Salomé).[DG]
|
|
12
|
02
|
1896
|
Constance
visits Wilde in prison.
|
|
12
|
02
|
1932
|
Death of William Welsford ‘Bouncer’
Ward. [PV]
|
|
13
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘Personal Impressions of America’,
Public Hall, Cockermouth.
|
|
13?
|
02
|
1898
|
Wilde moves
to Hôtel de Nice, rue des Beaux Arts, Paris.
|
|
13
|
02
|
1898
|
Publication of The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Wilde
sends inscribed copies to William Archer, R.B. Haldane, Ada Leverson.
|
|
14
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘Personal Impressions of America’,
Mechanics’ Institute, Bradford.
|
|
14
|
02
|
1895
|
First night of The Importance of being Earnest.
|
|
14
|
02
|
1995
|
Panel in stained glass window in Westminster Abbey
dedicated to Wilde.
|
|
15
|
02
|
1888
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘From the Poets’ Corner’ in The
Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
16
|
02
|
1884
|
Evening: Wilde lectures in the Victoria Hall,
Sunderland, on ‘The House Beautiful’
(local newspaper). [PV]
|
|
16
|
02
|
1886
|
Wilde attends a performance of ‘Twelfth Night’ in
Oxford. [RW]
|
|
17
|
02
|
1875
|
‘Found Wilde and Barton boxing in my rooms’ [D.P.
Barton?] (J.E.C. Bodley’s diary).
|
|
17
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (CL,
p 245). [PV]
|
|
18
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘The House Beautiful’, County Hall,
Carlisle.
|
|
18
|
02
|
1895
|
Lord Queensberry leaves his card for Wilde at the
Albemarle Club :’To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite’ [or ‘posing
somdomite’]. [DG]
|
|
19
|
02
|
1892
|
Wilde meets Graham Robertson.
|
|
19
|
02
|
1897
|
Constance goes from Genoa to Reading to inform her
husband of his mother’s death. [DG]
|
|
20
|
02
|
1885
|
Wilde attends Whistler’s ‘Ten o’clock Lecture’ at
Prince’s Hall.
|
|
20
|
02
|
1886
|
Wilde reviews ‘Twelfth Night’ at Oxford in the Dramatic
Review.[RW]
|
|
20
|
02
|
1892
|
Wilde offends with Edward Shelley. First performance of Lady Windermere’s
Fan at the Saint James’s Theatre. [DG]
|
|
21
|
02
|
1885
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Mr Whistler’s Ten o’clock’ in The
Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
21
|
02
|
1892
|
Wilde calls on Coulson Kernahan, a.m. (possibly the
22nd).
|
|
22
|
02
|
1875
|
J.E.C. Bodley meets Wilde.
|
|
22
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘The House Beautiful’, Temperance
Hall, Ulverston.
|
|
22
|
02
|
1897
|
After visiting Wilde in his jail, Constance visits
Edward Burne-Jones and his wife. [DG]
|
|
23
|
02
|
1875
|
Wilde received into the Oxford University Freemasons,
Apollo Lodge.
|
|
23
|
02
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures in the Victoria Hall, Sunderland on ‘Personal
Impressions of America’ (local newspaper).
[PV]
|
|
23
|
02
|
1893
|
Wilde sends Shaw a copy of Salome (which Shaw
appears not to have received).
|
|
24
|
02
|
1891
|
First visit by Wilde to a Mallarmé ‘Mardi’.
|
|
24
|
02
|
1892
|
Wilde goes to dinner party at Philip Currie’s.
|
|
25
|
02
|
1899
|
Wilde leaves Nice for Gland, outside Geneva, to stay
with Harold Mellor.
|
|
26
|
02
|
1866
|
Wedding of the Marquess of
Queensberry and Sibyl Montgomery in Saint George’s Church, Hanover
Square. [DG]
|
|
C28
|
02
|
1881
|
Edmund Gosse meets Wilde at a masked party at
Alma-Tadema’s, Wilde not masked.
|
|
28
|
02
|
1885
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘The Relation of Dress to Art’
in The Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
28
|
02
|
1895
|
Wilde calls on Charles Ricketts and goes on to the
Albemarle Club where he is handed Queensberry’s card.
|
|
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Willie Wilde called to the Bar.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Wilde visits Greece with Mahaffy, returning viâ Rome in
April.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Publication of Wilde’s poem ‘Impression de Voyage’ in Waifs
and Strays 3 (Oxford, ed. by Harold Boulton) (N.B. ‘the dear Duchess of
Bolton’).
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Lillie Langtry stays with Sir George & Lady Lewis
at Walton-on-Thames.Wilde and the Comyns Carrs visit.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Wilde finishes The Duchess of Padua.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Wilde and Constance dine with Mr and Mrs Charles
Hancock.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Wilde
lectures on Chatterton.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Further Literary Notes in Woman’s
World.
|
|
|
03
|
1897
|
Wilde
finishes ‘De Profundis’.
|
|
01
|
03
|
1895
|
Wilde obtains warrant for Queensberry’s arrest.
|
|
01
|
03
|
1895
|
Death of Prince Richard Metternich.
|
|
01
|
03
|
1916
|
Death of Mounet-Sully.
|
|
01
|
03
|
1923
|
Death of Bourke Cockran.
|
|
02
|
03
|
1881
|
Wilde’s ‘Impression du matin’ published in The
World.
|
|
03
|
03
|
1877
|
Wilde visits the Royal Academy.
|
|
03
|
03
|
1891
|
Wilde visits
Mallarmé.
|
|
03
|
03
|
19
|
Death of Alexandre Charpentier.
|
|
04?
|
03
|
1884
|
Wilde lectures on ‘The House Beautiful’, Bijou Theatre,
St Leonard’s.
|
|
04
|
03
|
1892
|
Wilde at first night of the triple bill ‘Le Baiser’
(Banville, tr. John Gray), ‘A Visit’ (Brandes), ‘A Modern Idyll’ (adapted by Arthur
Symons from the novel by Frank Harris.
|
|
04
|
03
|
1908
|
Death of Lord Hemphill, great-uncle of Constance
Wilde
|
|
05
|
03
|
1877
|
Wilde enters for the ‘Ireland’ Scholarship.
|
|
05
|
03
|
1893
|
The Wildes leave Babbacombe.
|
|
06
|
03
|
1888
|
Death of Louisa May Alcott.
|
|
07
|
03
|
1885
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Dinners and Dishes’ in The
Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
07
|
03
|
1895
|
Wilde at ‘The Importance’ with Lord Alfred Douglas and
Constance; Constance returns alone to Tite Street.
|
|
08
|
03
|
1889
|
Robert Ross is set upon by six undergraduates and
thrown into the fountain of King’s College.
Very distressed, Robbie has a minor nervous breakdown and leaves
Cambridge. [DG]
|
|
08
|
03
|
1934
|
Death of Stephen Mac Kenna.
|
|
09
|
03
|
1898
|
Wilde meets George Ives in Paris.
|
|
10
|
03
|
1934
|
Death of F. Anstey.
|
|
11
|
03
|
1891
|
Wilde in Paris to meet Zola.
|
|
12
|
03
|
1890
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Mr Pater’s Appreciations’ in ‘The
Speaker’.
|
|
13
|
03
|
1881
|
Assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
|
|
13
|
03
|
1893
|
Alfred Taylor introduces Wilde to the Parkers. Wilde offends with Charles Parker at
the Savoy Hotel.
|
|
13
|
03
|
1895
|
Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas go to Monte Carlo for a
week.
|
|
13
|
03
|
1897
|
Death of Rodolphe Salis.
|
|
13
|
03
|
1898
|
Wilde meets Carlos Blacker in Paris.
|
|
14c
|
03
|
1877
|
Wilde has tea with Frank Miles to meet Lord Ronald
Gower and Constance Duchess of Westminster.
|
|
14
|
03
|
1885
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Shakespeare on Scenery’ in ‘The
Dramatic Review’.
|
|
15
|
03
|
1883
|
Wilde sends MS of ‘The Duchess of Padua’ to Mary
Anderson.
|
|
15
|
03
|
1885
|
‘Saw Oscar Wilde and his wife
just going into the Fine Arts to see the Holman Hunt. He is a rather fine looking gentleman,
but inclined to stoutness. The lady
was strangely dressed.’ [Diary of Beatrix Potter]
|
|
15
|
03
|
1929
|
Death of Laura Hope.
|
|
15
|
03
|
1942
|
Death of Alexander von Zemlinsky.
|
|
16
|
03
|
1898
|
Publication of Wilde’s second letter to the ‘Daily
Chronicle’.
|
|
16
|
03
|
1898
|
Death of Aubrey Beardsley.
|
|
16
|
03
|
1899
|
Death of Francisque Sarcey.
|
|
16
|
03
|
1918
|
Death of Sir George Alexander.
|
|
16
|
03
|
1995
|
Death of Heinrich Sutermeister.
|
|
17
|
03
|
1892
|
Death of Emily Lloyd, aunt of Constance Wilde,
leaving her £3000.
|
|
20?
|
03
|
1893
|
Dowson sends Wilde a copy of ‘The Pierrot of the Minute’.
|
|
20
|
03
|
1945
|
Death of Lord Alfred Douglas.
|
|
20
|
03
|
1910
|
Death of Nadar.
|
|
21
|
03
|
1942
|
Death of Philip Wilson Steer.
|
|
23
|
03
|
1887
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘The American Invasion’ in ‘Court
& Society Review’.
|
|
24
|
03
|
1882
|
Death of Longfellow.
|
|
24
|
03
|
1909
|
Death of John Millington Synge.
|
|
25
|
03
|
1895
|
Wilde visits the fortune teller Mrs Robinson.
|
|
25
|
03
|
19
|
Death of General Sir Hector MacDonald.
|
|
26
|
03
|
1923
|
Death of Sarah Bernhardt.
|
|
26
|
03
|
1931
|
Death of Arnold Bennett.
|
|
27?
|
03
|
1898
|
Wilde moves to the Hôtel d’Alsace, 13 rue des
Beaux-Arts.
|
|
28
|
03
|
1887
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Great Writers by Little Men’ in
The Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
28
|
03
|
1898
|
Wilde cuts his lip badly in a fiacre accident.
|
|
30
|
03
|
1889
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’ as
‘The Birthday of the Little Princess’ in French and English in Paris
Illustré.
|
|
31
|
03
|
1877
|
Wilde enters Ravenna on his way to Greece (CL, p.71). [PV]
|
|
|
|
|
04
|
1877
|
Wilde returns from Greece with Mahaffy viâ Rome.
|
|
|
04
|
1882
|
Publication of Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by
Rennell Rodd, with an Introduction by Oscar
Wilde. London: J.M. Stoddart & Co.
|
|
|
04
|
1883
|
Wilde meets Robert Sherard ‘at the house of a Greek
lady’.
|
|
|
04
|
1883
|
Wilde meets Robert Sherard ‘at a dinner-party at which
I was also first introduced to Paul Bourget and John Sargent’.
|
|
|
04
|
1888
|
Wilde visited at ‘Woman’s World’ offices by Edith
Somerville.
|
|
|
04
|
1891
|
Publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray in
book form.
|
|
|
04
|
1894
|
Wilde
takes Vyvyan to see ‘Once upon a Time’ at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
|
|
|
04
|
1898
|
Wilde dines at Pousset’s with Henry and Aline Harland.
|
|
|
04
|
1899
|
Wilde returns to Paris, Hotel de la Neva, till May.
|
|
01
|
04
|
1877
|
Wilde leaves Brindisi.
|
|
01
|
04
|
1894
|
Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas lunch at the Café Royal
and are seen there by Queensberry. Queensberry writes threatening letter to
Douglas, provoking the response ‘What a very funny little man you are’.
|
|
01
|
04
|
1895
|
The Café Royal meeting between Wilde, Douglas, Frank
Harris and Shaw. Wilde at ‘The
Importance’ with Lord Alfred Douglas and Constance, after dining
together.
|
|
01
|
04
|
1899
|
Wilde leaves Gland for Santa Margherita.
|
|
01
|
04
|
1938
|
Death of Mortimer Menpes.
|
|
02
|
04
|
1805
|
Birth of Hans Christian
Andersen.
|
|
02
|
04
|
1840
|
Birth of Zola.
|
|
02
|
04
|
1857
|
Birth of Isola Wilde.
|
|
02
|
04
|
1877
|
From Corfu Wilde writes to the Revd H. R. Bramley,
Senior Dean of Arts at Magdalen College, Oxford, saying that he is afraid
he ‘will not be able to be back for the beginning of term [4 April]. I hope
you will not mind if I miss ten days… . We expect to be in Athens by the
17th and I will post back to Oxford immediately’.
From Corfu Wilde writes a postcard to Reginald Harding
telling him that he has come to Greece, not Rome as he had planned,
but ‘I will take Rome on my way back’
(CL, p.44, 45). [PV]
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|
02
|
04
|
1900
|
Wilde visits
Palermo.
|
|
03
|
04
|
1893
|
First night of Brookfield’s satire on Wilde ‘The Poet
& the Puppets’ at the Garden Theatre, New York.
|
|
03
|
04
|
1901
|
Death of Richard d’Oyley Carte.
|
|
04
|
04
|
1858
|
Birth of Remy de Gourmont.
|
|
05
|
04
|
1837
|
Birth of Swinburne.
|
|
05
|
04
|
1875
|
Birth of Mistinguett.
|
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05
|
04
|
1895
|
Acquittal of Queensberry; Wilde consults Sir George
Lewis; Wilde and Douglas lunch at the
Holborn Viaduct Hotel, where George Wyndham tries unsuccessfully to
see them; then go to the Cadogan
Hotel, stopping en route at a bank where Wilde draws ‘a considerable sum of
money’. Wilde arrested at the
Cadogan Hotel, room 53.
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|
06
|
04
|
1820
|
Birth of Nadar.
|
|
06
|
04
|
1895
|
Wilde charged at Bow Street and refused bail;
imprisoned at Holloway [till 26th April].
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07
|
04
|
1812
|
Birth of Robert Browning.
|
|
07
|
04
|
1892
|
Wilde lunches at a Paris restaurant.
|
|
07
|
04
|
1898
|
Death of Constance Wilde.
|
|
08
|
04
|
1914
|
Death of Hubertine Auclert.
|
|
09
|
04
|
1856
|
Birth of Harry de Windt.
|
|
09
|
04
|
1872
|
Birth of Léon Blum.
|
|
09
|
04
|
1909
|
Death of Charles Conder.
|
|
09
|
04
|
1926
|
Death of Henry Miller.
|
|
10
|
04
|
1882
|
Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
|
|
10
|
04
|
1900
|
Wilde leaves
Palermo.
|
|
10
|
04
|
1909
|
Death of Swinburne.
|
|
10
|
04
|
1954
|
Death of Auguste Lumière.
|
|
11
|
04
|
1916
|
Death of Richard Harding Davis.
|
|
11
|
04
|
1938
|
Death of Edgar Jepson.
|
|
12
|
04
|
1900
|
Wilde in Rome [till 15th? May].
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|
13
|
04
|
1860
|
Birth of James Ensor.
|
|
13
|
04
|
1887
|
Wilde proposes meeting Alsagar Vian for dinner at
Pagani’s the following Friday.
|
|
13
|
04
|
1898
|
Carlos Blacker visits Wilde, Ross also there.
|
|
14
|
04
|
1895
|
News of Wilde’s plight discussed in Paris.
|
|
14
|
04
|
1898
|
Wilde introduces Henri Davray to Frank Harris at Foyot’s.
|
|
15
|
04
|
1843
|
Birth of Henry James.
|
|
15
|
04
|
1888
|
Death of Matthew Arnold
|
|
15?
|
04
|
1900
|
Wilde leaves Rome.
|
|
15
|
04
|
1925
|
Death of John Singer Sargent.
|
|
16
|
04
|
1871
|
Birth of John Millington
Synge.
|
|
16
|
04
|
1895
|
Wilde writes to Sherard from Holloway.
|
|
17
|
04
|
1897
|
Frank Harris visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.
|
|
18
|
04
|
1864
|
Birth of Richard Harding
Davis.
|
|
18
|
04
|
1887
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘A Cheap Edition of a Great Man’
in The Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
18
|
04
|
1900
|
Death of R.A.M. Stevenson.
|
|
19
|
04
|
1876
|
Death of Sir William Wilde.
|
|
19
|
04
|
1881
|
Death of Disraeli.
|
|
19
|
04
|
1938
|
Death of Suzanne Valadon.
|
|
20
|
04
|
1840
|
Birth of Odilon Redon.
|
|
20
|
04
|
1850
|
Birth of J.-F. Raffaëlli.
|
|
20
|
04
|
1893
|
Wilde dines at the Albemarle Club with Lord Alfred
Douglas, Max Beerbohm and Herbert
Tree.
|
|
20
|
04
|
1912
|
Death of Bram Stoker.
|
|
21
|
04
|
1883
|
Wilde meets Edmond de Goncourt.
|
|
21
|
04
|
1894
|
Wilde at first night of ‘The Arms and the Man’.
|
|
21
|
04
|
1910
|
Death of Mark Twain
|
|
21
|
04
|
1924
|
Death of Eleonora Duse.
|
|
21
|
04
|
1951
|
Death of Olive Fremstad.
|
|
22
|
04
|
1860
|
Birth of Ada Rehan [Crehan]
in Limerick.
|
|
22
|
04
|
1864
|
Birth of Phil May.
|
|
22
|
04
|
1875
|
Wilde let off progging fine.
|
|
22
|
04
|
1876
|
Funeral of Sir William Wilde at Mount St Jerome,
Dublin.
|
|
23
|
04
|
1881
|
Wilde at first night of ‘Patience’ at the Opéra
Comique.
|
|
23
|
04
|
1881
|
Wilde’s ‘Impressions’ published in ‘Pan’.
|
|
24
|
04
|
1862
|
Birth of Cyril Maude.
|
|
24
|
04
|
1875
|
Wilde raised to second degree Mason.
|
|
24
|
04
|
1891
|
Wilde sees ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Vaudeville Theatre,
2.30.
|
|
24
|
04
|
1895
|
Selling up of Wilde’s possessions at Tite Street. Lord
Alfred Douglas goes abroad, not returning until November 1898.
|
|
25
|
04
|
1875
|
J.E.C. Bodley dines with Wilde.
|
|
25
|
04
|
1881
|
Wilde at the first night of the revival of Sheridan
Knowles’s ‘Virginius’, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
|
|
26
|
04
|
1855
|
Wilde baptised at St Mark’s, Great Brunswick Street
(now Pearse Street), Dublin.
|
|
26
|
04
|
1877
|
The Easter Term at Oxford started on 4th April 1877 and
on 26th April, when Wilde is still absent without permission after three
weeks, the Magdalen Officers meet and ‘resolve’ that he shall be ‘rusticated’
[suspended] for the rest of the academic year and fined half a year’s
Demyship [scholarship]money; and that if he does not return punctually in
October ‘with an amount of work prescribed by his Tutor satisfactorily
prepared, the Officers will consider whether he shall retain his Demyship’
(President Bulley’s ‘President’s Note-Book, Magdalen Archives). [PV]
|
|
26
|
04
|
1895
|
Wilde’s first trial opens before Mr Justice Charles.
Death of Count Eric Stenbock.
|
|
27
|
04
|
1874
|
Birth of Maurice Baring.
|
|
27
|
04
|
1882
|
Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
|
|
27
|
04
|
1894
|
Wilde in Paris at the Hôtel des Deux Mondes with Bosie.
|
|
28
|
04
|
1886
|
Wilde and Constance at a political conversazione at the
Hancocks’.
|
|
28c
|
04
|
1894
|
Wilde meets Marcel Proust.
|
|
29
|
04
|
1872
|
Wilde wins the Michaelmas Prize.
|
|
29
|
04
|
1881
|
Wilde at the General Private View for the Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition, painted by Frith.
|
|
30
|
04
|
1833
|
Birth of Hortense
Schneider.
|
|
30
|
04
|
1877
|
Wilde at inaugural reception of the Grosvenor Gallery,
wearing a coat that from behind
resembled a ‘cello.
|
|
30
|
04
|
1883
|
Death of Manet.
|
|
30
|
04
|
1889
|
Death of Carl Rosa in Paris.
|
|
|
|
|
05
|
1883
|
Walter Sickert a guest of Wilde at the Hôtel Voltaire.
|
|
|
05
|
1885
|
The Wildes at a party of Sir Morell Mackenzie.
|
|
|
05
|
1886
|
Publication of Wilde’s review ‘A Fire at Sea (from the
French of Ivan Tourgenieff)’,
Macmillan’s Magazine.
|
|
|
05
|
1892
|
Death of James Ripley Osgood.
|
|
|
05
|
1892
|
Wilde meets Richard Le Gallienne in Piccadilly, the day
after J.R. Osgood’s death.
|
|
|
05
|
1893
|
Wilde in
Oxford.
|
|
|
05
|
1894
|
Wilde in Florence with Douglas. Meets Mary Costello (Berenson) several
times.
|
|
|
05
|
1894
|
Vyvyan Wilde goes to Hildersham House School,
Broadstairs.
|
|
|
05
|
1894
|
Fourteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Florence.
|
|
|
05
|
1895
|
The Wildes move to Nervi, near Margaret Brooke, Ranee
of Sarawak.
|
|
|
05
|
1898
|
Wilde meets and dines with Diaghilev (perhaps).
|
|
|
05
|
1899
|
Wilde moves to the Hôtel Marsollier.
|
|
|
05
|
1899
|
Wilde at Marlotte, near Fontainebleau.
|
|
|
05
|
1900
|
Wilde spends ten days in Gland.
|
|
|
05
|
1907
|
Wilde’s ‘A Florentine Tragedy’ produced at the Théâtre
de l’Œuvre.
|
|
01
|
05
|
1874
|
Birth of Romaine Goddard
(Romaine Brooks).
|
|
01
|
05
|
1877
|
Wilde at the official opening of the Grosvenor Gallery.
|
|
01
|
05
|
1878
|
Wilde as Prince Rupert at Mrs George Morrell’s fancy
dress ball, Headington Hill Hall. On
or around this date Jules Guggenheim photographs Wilde as Prince Rupert
with his Magdalen friend J. H. T. Wharton standing beside him as Sir Walter
Raleigh (The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate’s Journal, 2nd May 1878;
Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, Illustration 11; Merlin Holland,
The Wilde Album, 1997, p. 51; CL,p
38). [PV]
|
|
01
|
05
|
1900
|
Death of Mihaly Munkáczy.
|
|
02
|
05
|
1881
|
Wilde at first night of ‘Othello’.
|
|
02
|
05
|
1887
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Injury & Insult’ in The
Pall Mall Gazette.
|
|
03
|
05
|
1844
|
Birth of Richard D’Oyley
Carte.
|
|
03
|
05
|
1914
|
Death of Ernst von Schuch, first conductor of Salome.
|
|
04
|
05
|
1858
|
Birth of Frank Benson.
|
|
04
|
05
|
1877
|
Wilde’s fine: the Magdalen Officers rule that ‘the
Order of 26th April be maintained with the proviso that half the fine shall
be remitted, if in October the work prescribed by his Tutor be
satisfactorily prepared’(President Bulley’s ‘President’s Note-Book’, Magdalen
Archives). [PV]
|
|
04
|
05
|
1891
|
Traditional date of the death of Holmes and Moriarty
in the Reichenbach Falls.
|
|
04
|
05
|
1893
|
Pierre Louÿs publishes his sonnet ‘Hyacinthe’, inspired
by a letterof
Wilde to Bosie, in The Spirit Lamp.
[DG]
|
|
04
|
05
|
1895
|
Frank Harris visits Wilde in Holloway.
|
|
05
|
05
|
1883
|
Wilde dines with Edmond de Goncourt and Giuseppe de
Nittis.
|
|
05
|
05
|
1883
|
Death of Eva Gonzalès.
|
|
06
|
05
|
1856
|
Birth of Sigmund Freud.
|
|
06
|
05
|
1863
|
Lady Wilde writes to Mary Travers.
|
|
06
|
05
|
1920
|
Death of Hortense Schneider.
|
|
06
|
05
|
1949
|
Death of Maurice Maeterlinck.
|
|
07
|
05
|
1840
|
Birth of Piotr Tchaikovski.
|
|
07
|
05
|
1865
|
Birth of A.E.W. Mason.
|
|
07
|
05
|
1879
|
Lady Wilde gives up 1 Merrion Square.
|
|
07
|
05
|
1886
|
Wilde attends a private performance of ‘The Cenci’ at
the Grand, Islington. [RW]
|
|
07
|
05
|
1895
|
Wilde released on bail of £5,000.
|
|
08
|
05
|
1877
|
Wilde travels from London to Oxford to attend the ‘anniversary
festival’ of the Churchill Masonic Lodge. He is ‘appointed and invested’
one of the Lodge’s new officers, Junior Deacon, and J.E.C. Bodley is
likewise made one of the two Directors of Ceremonies (local newspapers;
Peter Vernier, ‘Oscar’s "Mental Photograph" Revisited’, The
Wildean 15, July 1999). [PV]
|
|
08
|
05
|
1880
|
Death of Gustave Flaubert.
|
|
08
|
05
|
1881
|
Death of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
|
|
08
|
05
|
1895
|
Wilde moves into his mother’s house where he is visited
by R.H. Sherard and Ernest Dowson.
|
|
08-19
|
05
|
1895
|
Wilde stays at the Leversons’ house in Courtfield
Gardens.
|
|
08-19
(between)
|
05
|
1895
|
Wilde meets Robert Cunninghame Graham in Rotten Row.
|
|
08
|
05
|
1903
|
Death of Paul Gauguin.
|
|
08
|
05
|
1952
|
Death of Elizabeth Robins.
|
|
09
|
05
|
1840
|
Birth of Blanche d’Antigny.
|
|
09
|
05
|
1860
|
Birth of J.M. Barrie.
|
|
09
|
05
|
1885
|
Publication of Wilde’s ‘Hamlet at the Lyceum’ in The
Dramatic Review. (This
production, with Irving as Hamlet, had opened on the 2nd. [RW]
|
|
09
|
05
|
1915
|
Death of Cyril Holland, k.i.a.
|
|
10
|
05
|
1891
|
Wilde, Constance Wilde and Edward and Georgiana
Burne-Jones dine with the Ranee of Sarawak.
|
|
10
|
05
|
1896
|
Charles Ricketts visits Wilde in prison [N.B. Peter Vernier questions this].
|
|
10
|
05
|
1896
|
Death of Beatrix Whistler.
|
|
11
|
05
|
1823
|
Birth of Alfred Stevens.
|
|
11
|
05
|
1824
|
Birth of Jean Léon Gérôme.
|
|
11
|
05
|
1873
|
Birth of Chaliapin.
|
|
11
|
05
|
1877
|
Wilde arrives back in Dublin (CL, p.47; Peter Vernier, Oscar’s "Mental Photograph"
Revisited’, The Wildean 15, July 1999). [PV]
|
|
11
|
05
|
1904
|
Death of Adrian Hope.
|
|
12
|
05
|
1828
|
Birth of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti.
|
|
12
|
05
|
1842
|
Birth of Massenet.
|
|
12
|
05
|
1845
|
Birth of Gabriel Fauré.
|
|
12
|
05
|
1867
|
Birth of Frank Brangwyn.
|
|
13
|
05
|
1907
|
Death of Joris--Karl Huysmans.
|
|
14
|
05
|
1875
|
Wilde on the River Cherwell with Bodley and
Goldschmidt. Wilde, Bodley and Bodley’s brother Albert have supper at the
Mitre Hotel (J. E. C. Bodley’s diary, Bodleian Library). [PV]
|
|
14
|
05
|
1906
|
Death of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon.
|
|
14
|
05
|
1912
|
Death of Strindberg.
|
|
14
|
05
|
1925
|
Death of Sir Henry Rider Haggard.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1859
|
Birth of Pierre Curie.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1877
|
Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1883
|
Death of Madame Mohl.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1886
|
Wilde reviews the performance of ‘The Cenci’ in the Dramatic
Review. [RW]
|
|
15
|
05
|
1895
|
Toulouse-Lautrec’s drawing of Wilde appears in the Revue
Blanche.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1930
|
Death of W.J. Locke.
|
|
15
|
05
|
1944
|
Death of Sir John Martin-Harvey.
|
|
16
|
05
|
1910
|
Death of Henri-Edmond Cross.
|
|
16
|
05
|
1928
|
Death of Edmund Gosse.
|
|
16
|
05
|
1845
|
Birth of Elie Metchnikoff.
|
|
17
|
05
|
1866
|
Birth of Erik Satie.
|
|
17
|
05
|
1881
|
Wilde signs the contract with David Bogue for the
publication of his poems.
|
|
17
|
05
|
1892
|
Wilde has tea with Elizabeth Robins.
|
|
17
|
05
|
1917
|
Death of Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.
|
|
18
|
05
|
1887
|
Wilde begins editorship of Woman’s World.
|
|
18
|
05
|
1897
|
Wilde transferred to Pentonville.
|
|
19
|
05
|
1865
|
Birth of Reginald Lister.
|
|
19
|
05
|
1892
|
First night of Brookfield’s satire on Wilde ‘The Poet
& the Puppets’ at the Comedy Theatre.
It runs for 40 performances.
|
|
19
|
05
|
1897
|
Wilde is released and goes to Stewart Headlam’s house,
31 Upper Bedford Place, Bloomsbury,
where he is visited by Ada Leverson.
|
|
19
|
05
|
1897
|
Wilde sails from Newhaven by the night boat, the ‘Tamise’. Publication of Dracula.
|
|
19
|
05
|
1898
|
Death of Mr Gladstone.
|
|
20
|
05
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