Fiction · 1893
A Woman of No Importance
At a country-house party, the worldly Lord Illingworth offers to make a young man, Gerald, his private secretary — unaware, or perhaps not, that Gerald's mother, Mrs. Arbuthnot, recognizes in him the man who seduced and abandoned her twenty years before, and that Gerald is the son he has never acknowledged.
Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance premiered in London in 1893, the second of the four society comedies — after Lady Windermere's Fan and before An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest — that made his reputation as a playwright.
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1854–1900 · Victorian
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, studied at Trinity College and at Oxford, and became the most celebrated wit of late-Victorian London. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890–91), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest (both 1895) made his reputation. In 1895 he was convicted of gross indecency and served two years’ hard labour; De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol came out of the experience. He died in Paris.
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