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THE OSCHOLARSTHE WILDE CALENDAR (1): WILDE DAY BY DAY
This is assembled from the Calendars that were published monthly in THE OSCHOLARS in 2001/2. New material and corrections were added 9th March 2006 and the page was redesigned with further additions and corrections 21st September 2008. The birth and death dates of key figures, recorded separately in the monthly versions, were added in, errors silently corrected and typographical consistency improved. Transferred to present site 03.vi.2015.
Although much in this Calendar is well-known, we believe that a continuing project of adding new material to it is possible, and that it will be an increasingly valuable biographical tool. It is set out in ‘day-by-day’ form, following the calendar year. For this information in chronological order (year, month, day), we have also assembled The Wilde Chronology (q.v.)
We will add the American lectures omitted from the monthly calendars. There is a well-designed and accurate Calendar of Wilde’s engagements in America, edited by Marilyn Bisch, on the website of The Oscar Wilde Society of America. This can be found at http://owsoa.org/lecturetour.htm.
Much work still needs to be done using Holland & Hart-Davis, and we have made a start on this.
All contributions and corrections are welcome and of course will be credited.
Contributors include Geoff Dibb, Danielle Guérin, Anne Jordan, Robert Maguire, Peter Vernier and the late Roy Waters, to whom our thanks.
CL = Complete Letters; [AJ] = Anne Jordan; [DG] = Danielle Guérin; [GD] = Geoffrey Dibb; [PV] = Peter Vernier; [RW] = Roy Waters
01 1883 Wilde in Paris, first at the Hôtel Continental and then at the Hôtel Voltaire [till ?May] and is visited by Sickert.
01 1891 William Morris meets Wilde at the Richmonds.
01 1891 Wilde meets Lady Blanche Hozier.
01 1891 Publication of Wilde’s ‘London Models’ in The English Illustrated Magazine.
01 1891 Wilde and Constance at first night of ‘Macbeth’ (Irving, Ellen Terry).
01 1891 Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas for the first time.
01 1891 Rhymers’ Poetry reading at Herbert Horne’s. Wilde there with John Gray.
01 1891 Sherard sees ‘much’ of Wilde in London.
01 1895 Wilde and Carson meet in the Strand.
01 1897 Wilde begins ‘De Profundis’.
01 1897 Wilde is allowed to let his hair grow.
01 01 1885 The Wildes move to 16 Tite Street, Chelsea.
04 01 1895 Gilbert Burgess interviews Wilde for ‘The Sketch’.
05 01 1885 Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre on ‘Dress’ (CL, p.244). [PV]
06 01 1885 Dublin. Afternoon: Wilde lectures in the Gaiety Theatre on ‘The Value of Art in Modern Life’ (CL, p 244). [PV].
08 01 1885 Wilde probably present at Sidney Webb’s lecture, Kelmscott House, on ‘The Irish National Movement and its bearing on Socialism’.
11 01 1854 Birth of William Welsford ‘Bouncer’ Ward [PV]
12 01 1906 Charles Hemphill, great uncle of Constance Wilde, raised to the peerage.
12 01 1906 First performance of Wilde’s Florentine Tragedy in Berlin, directed by Max Reinhardt.
13 01 1894 Constance Wilde opens a ‘fancy bazaar’ for the Ferdinand Place Mission Schoolroom, Chalk Farm.
17 01 1895 Wilde visits Algiers with Lord Alfred Douglas.
18 01 1885 Wilde lectures at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (CL, p. 245) [PV]
19 01 1875 J.E.C. Bodley encounters Oscar Wilde with Willie at the Victoria Music Hall, Oxford.
19 01 1885 Evening: Wilde lectures in the New Assembly Hall, Sunderland on ‘Dress’ (local newspaper). [PV]
20 01 1888 Publication of Wilde’s ‘From the Poets’ Corner’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
21 01 1884 Wilde lectures at Firth College, Sheffield on ‘The House Beautiful (CL, p.224). [PV]
23 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]
26 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 01 1889 Publication of Wilde’s ‘The New President’ in The Pall Mall Gazette.
28 01 1864 William Wilde knighted.
28 01 1897 More Adey visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.
30 01 1895 Fifteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Algiers.
31 01 1872 Wilde placed third in Exam Honours.
31 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]
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.
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.
06 04 1820 Birth of Nadar.
06 04 1895 Wilde charged at Bow Street and refused bail; imprisoned at Holloway [till 26th April].
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].
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 letterofWilde 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 1856 Birth of Henri-Edmond Cross.
20 05 1892 Wilde moves back to his mother’s house.
20 05 1897 04.30. Wilde lands at Dieppe and stays at the Hotel Sandwich.
21 05 1855 Birth of Émile Verhaeren.
21 05 1874 Birth of W. Somerset Maugham.
22 05 1813 Birth of Richard Wagner.
22 05 1841 Birth of Catulle Mendès.
22 05 1844 Birth of Mary Cassatt.
22 05 1859 Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle.
22 05 1885 Death of Victor Hugo.
22 05 1886 Wilde reviews ‘Helena in Troas’ in the Dramatic Review. (This opened at Hengler’s Circus on 17th May, and he can be assumed to have attended the first night. [RW]
22 05 1895 Wilde’s second trial opens before Mr Justice Wills (Sir Alfred Wills). Lord Queensberry and Lord Percy of Hawick bound over to keep the peace.
22 05 1954 Death of Lloyd Osbourne.
22 05 1956 Death of Max Beerbohm.
22 05 1972 Death of Margaret Rutherford ("Miss Prism’ in the Anthony Asquith film).
23 05 1885 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Henry V at Oxford’ in The Dramatic Review, mentioning having seen it ‘the week before ‘ [RW]
23 05 1936 Death of Henri de Régnier.
24 05 1853 Birth of Alphonse Bertillon.
24 05 1855 Birth of Arthur Wing Pinero.
24 05 1890 Lady Wilde awarded a civil list pension of £70/-/- a year.
25 05 1863 Birth of Camille Erlanger.
25 05 1869 Birth of Robert Ross.
25 05 1875 Wilde raised to Master Mason.
25 05 1875 Wilde and Bodley dine together. Lodge meeting: William Grenfell, Prince Leopold, Wilde, Bodley.
25 05 1881 Birth of Robert Vansittart.
25 05 1893 Wilde and Pierre Louÿs quarrel.
25 05 1895 Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labour and imprisoned at Pentonville. Announcement of a knighthood for Henry Irving.
25 05 1895 Death of Rosa Bonheur.
25 05 1937 Death of Florence Balcombe (Mrs Bram Stoker).
26 05 1892 Wilde speaks at meeting of the Royal General
Theatrical Fund.
26 05 1894 Wilde taken by Mary Costello to have tea with Eugene Lee Hamilton and Vernon Lee.
26 05 1897 Wilde moves from Dieppe to the Hôtel de la Plage, Berneval-sur-Mer.
26? 05 1898 Wilde goes to the Salon with Lord Alfred Douglas and Maurice Gilbert; then meets Sherard in Campbell’s Bar and goes on to dine with the Vicomte d’Humières.
26c. 05 1894 Wilde has tea with Walpurga Lady Paget in Florence.
27 05 1867 Birth of Arnold Bennett.
27 05 1889 Wilde at a reception given by the Attorney-General, Sir Charles Russell QC (later Lord Russell of Killowen).
27 05 1897 Wilde is visited by Lugné-Poë.
28 05 1833 Birth of Félix Bracquemond.
28 05 1895 Daudet brings to Paris news of Wilde from Sherard.
28 05 1906 Wilde estate declared solvent after all debtors are paid at 20/- in the £ + 4%.
28 05 1925 Death of J.E.C. Bodley.
29 05 1868 Birth of Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger.
29 05 1884 WEDDING OF OSCAR WILDE AND CONSTANCE LLOYD at St James’, Sussex Gardens, London.
29 05 1884 The Wildes honeymoon at the Hôtel Wagram, rue de Rivoli, and in Dieppe [to 24th June].
29 05 1911 Death of Sir W.S. Gilbert.
30 05 1853 Birth of Frank O’Meara.
30 05 1885 Wilde reviews Ellen Terry in ‘Olivia’ in the Dramatic Review.
The first night of this revival was 27th May, which he can be assumed to have attended. [RW]
30 05 1887 Publication of Wilde’s ‘From the Poets’ Corner’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
31 05 1836 Birth of Jules Chéret.
31 05 1860 Birth of Walter Sickert.
31 05 1892 Society of Authors Annual Dinner, Holborn Restaurant: Wilde present.
06 1879 Publication of Wilde’s poem ‘Easter Day’ in ‘Waifs and Strays’ (ed. Harold Boulton) no. 1.
06 1885 Publication of Wilde’s poem ‘Roses and Rue’ in ‘Society’.
06 1893 Wilde at The Cottage, Goring-on-Thames.
06 1895 The Wildes move to Bevais, nr Neuchâtel and stay with Otho Lloyd. Here they change their names to Holland.
06 1897 Charles Wyndham visits Wilde at Berneval in the hope of persuading him to adapt Eugène Sue’s play ‘Le Verre d’Eau’. Wilde turns the idea down in September.
06 1898 Wilde at Nogent-sur-Marne till July with Lord Alfred Douglas, who goes to Paris every day.
06 1899 Wilde dines with Stuart Merrill, meets André Hérold.
01 06 1878 Wilde starts the written exams for ‘Greats’ (The Oxford University Gazette; R.F. Horton, An Autobiography, 1917). [PV]
01 06 1879 Death of The Prince Imperial (inspiring a poem by Wilde).
02 06 1857 Birth of Richard Reginald ‘Kitten’ Harding [‘not Reginald Richard’, as Ellmann, p 43, has it, the mistake originating in the Magdalen Record]. [PV]
02 06 1870?
Birth of Reggie Turner.
02 06 1879 Wilde present at the opening of the Comédie Française London season at the Gaiety Theatre (to 12th July).
02 06 1882 Wilde lectures at the Globe Theatre, Boston.
02 06 1893 Society of Authors Dinner: Wilde present.
02 06 1894 Goncourt discusses Wilde with Baronne Deslandes.
02c 06 1899 Wilde meets Ada Rehan and Mrs & Mrs Augustin Daly in a Paris restaurant.
03 06 1875 Wilde found by J.E.C. Bodley late in the evening in Harter’s rooms in Oriel College, Oxford, singing noisily with Arnold Fitzgerald of Oriel. ‘Late in the evening I went to Harter’s rooms in Oriel where I found Groves preparing to be ploughed on the morrow & Fitz & Wilde who were very noisy about the "Villa Bayheu" &c. (J.E.C. Bodley’s diary, Bodleian Library). [PV]
03 06 1925 Death of Pierre Louÿs.
03 06 1936 Death of Margaret de Windt, Ranee of Sarawak.
04 06 1876 Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower and Frank Miles visit Wilde in his rooms at Magdalen (Cloisters VIII, Ground Floor Right). ‘By early train to Oxford with F. Miles…There I made the acquaintance of young Oscar Wilde, a friend of Miles’s. A pleasant cheery fellow, but with
his long-haired head full of nonsense about the Church of Rome. His room filled with photographs of the Pope and of Cardinal Manning’ (Gower, My Reminiscences, II, p.134). [PV]
04 06 1884 Wilde and Constance give a dinner party.
05 06 1885 Birth of Cyril Wilde.
05 06 1895 Article in the Daily Chronicle suggesting Wilde is suffering a mental breakdown. This is read by Asquith (Home Secretary and former social acquaintance) who orders an investigation.
06 06 1853 Birth of J.E.C. Bodley
06 06 1885 Wilde reviews an amateur performance of ‘As You Like It’ at Coombe House in the Dramatic Review, mentioning having seen it the week before. [RW]
07 06 1848 Birth of Paul Gauguin.
07 06 1875 J.E.C. Bodley, who has been watching the Commemoration Procession of Boats, meets Wilde in Christ Church Meadow. [PV]
07 06 1898 Carlos Blacker visits Wilde at Nogent-sur-Marne.
09 06 1873 Wilde elected to a Foundation Scholarship.
09 06 1877 Wilde dines with Henry Wilson.
09 06 1884 Wilde gives an interview to the Morning News in which he discusses Sarah Bernhardt’s ‘Macbeth’.
09 06 1888 Theatrical Dinner at the Garrick Club - possible attendance by Wilde?
10 06 1878 Wilde wins the Newdigate Prize with ‘Ravenna’.
11 06 1874 Wilde’s Magdalen demyship gazetted.
11 06 1879 Wilde publishes ‘To Sarah Bernhardt’ in ‘The World’.
11 06 1887 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Mr Pater’s Imaginary Portraits’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
11 06 1899 Wilde meets Ernest Dowson.
12 06 1895 Wilde visited by Haldane in Pentonville (miscalled Holloway in Haldane’s Autobiography).
13 06 1877 Death of Henry Wilson (Wilde), æt.39, of pneumonia.
Was the cause of death mentioned? A severe chill, it seems.
13 06 1896 Frank Harris visits Wilde in Reading Gaol.
14 06 1934 Death of John Gray.
15 06 1875 Wilde in Florence; writes ‘San Miniato’.
15 06 1878 Wilde gives a dinner at Magdalen for Julia Constance Fletcher, author of Mirage and The Nile Novel, and her stepfather. Invites A. H. Sayce to join them (CL, p 68). [PV]
16 06 1876 ‘Terminal Examinations’ at Magdalen College, Oxford. Wilde in the category ‘Specially Commended for Regularity and Diligence’ for the first time. [PV]
16-20 06 1875 (between) Wilde visits Venice.
16-2 06 1875 (between) Wilde visits Padua.
16 06 1897 Wilde and Dowson together.
16 06 1898 Death of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
17 06 1897 Wilde and Dowson together.
18 06 1894 Wilde at the wedding of Violet Maxse and Lord Edward Cecil.
19 06 1858 Birth of George Alexander.
20 06 1883 Wilde at a poetry recital in London.
20 06 1890 Publication of Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ in ‘Lippincott’s Magazine’.
20 06 1897 Sixteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide, in Berneval. Weather terrible.
21 06 1876 Around 3.15 pm: Wilde is in a group of 23 Magdalen men and their relatives photographed by Jules Guggenheim in the Magdalen Cloister Quadrangle. The group includes William Ward, his mother and sisters Gertrude and Florence; Reginald Harding, his brother James, their sister Amy (‘Miss Puss’, ‘the child Amy’), whom Wilde mentions in his letters., and their mother. (The Oxford diary of Florence Ward, Magdalen College Archives; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, Illustration 9). Wilde at a dinner-party for 11 given by William Ward in his rooms at Magdalen, later Wilde’s rooms (Florence Ward’s Oxford diary). [PV]
21 06 1878 ‘Terminal Examinations’ at Magdalen College. Wilde in the category ‘Specially Commended for Regularity and Diligence’ for only the second time. At the ‘Terminal Examinations’ Wilde is presented with the marble bust of the young Augustus bequeathed to the College by Dr Daubney to be given to the first Magdalen undergraduate to win the Newdigate after Daubney’s death (President Bulley’s ‘President’s Note-Book’). [PV]
21 06 1895 Queensberry petitions for Wilde’s bankruptcy.
21 06 1897 Publication of Wilde’s first letter to the Daily Chronicle.
22 06 1856 Birth of Henry Rider Haggard.
22 06 1862 Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and of Claude Debussy.
22 06 1875 Wilde in Milan with Mahaffy.
22 1876 Wilde visits Blenheim Palace in a party of 24 made up of 12 Magdalen men and their relatives. The nineteen-month-old Winston Churchill is in the nursery upstairs. At the picnic lunch afterwards in a field outside Blenheim Park Wilde sets tongues wagging by flirting with Gertrude Ward (Florence Ward’s Oxford diary; Marian Fowler, Blenheim, 1989, p.68). [PV]
23 06 1875 Wilde in Milan.
23 06 1876 Wilde lunches with the Wards at their lodgings at 53 Broad Street, Oxford. Wilde visits Radley College, near Abingdon, William Ward’s old school, with the Wards and Henry Shuttleworth. Wilde gives a dinner-party at Magdalen. The Wards are among the guests. Wilde attends a private dance at the Alfred Masonic Lodge, Oxford. Talks to Florence Ward, who writes: ‘I think Wilde found me very green and tried to puzzle me by asking me such questions as "whether I found the world very hollow?" etc.’ (Florence Ward’s Oxford diary). [PV]
23 06 1899 Wilde at Trouville and Le Havre.
24 06 1875 Wilde in Milan.
24 06 1878 Wilde attends the University Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie (guest list in local newspapers). [PV]
24 06 1884 The Wildes return from honeymoon.
25 06 1878 Wilde attends the Freemasons’ Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie (guest list in local newspapers). Wilde photographed in academic dress standing behind a seated lady who is most likely his mother in a huge group. [PV]
25 06 1884 Wilde and Constance go to the theatre with Mme
Gabrielli.
25 06 1876 Wilde and William Ward take Mrs Ward, Gertrude and Florence to see ‘All Souls and Worcester and a lot of colleges’ (CL, p.17) . [PV]
26 06 1875 Wilde arrives in Lausanne.
26 06 1878 Wilde recites Ravenna in the Sheldonian. Ravenna published by Thomas Shrimpton & Son, Broad Street, Oxford. Wilde photographed in academic dress standing behind a seated lady who is most likely his mother in a huge Encaenia day group in the Magdalen College Cloister Quadrangle (Peter Vernier ‘"Newdigate" Photographs of Oscar Wilde’, The Wildean 10, January 1997). Wilde attends the Christ Church Ball in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, with his brother Willie (guest list in local newspapers). [PV]
26 06 1899 Wilde leaves Trouville and Le Havre.
27 06 1876 Wilde rides to Abingdon with William Ward and they dine there (CL, p.17). [PV]
28 06 1876 Wilde and William Ward have tea and lawn tennis at Radley College (CL, p 17). [PV]
29 06 1861 Birth of Félix Fénéon.
29 06 1876 Wilde dines with William Ward at the Mitre Hotel, High Street, Oxford (CL, p.17). [PV]
29 06 1882 Death of James Aloysius Hansom.
I’ll take a hansom. There is nothing in the world so respectable as a good Shrewsbury and Talbot.
30 06 1876 Wilde goes from Oxford to West Ashby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, to stay with his uncle, the Revd John Maxwell Wilde (CL, p.17) [PV]
30 06 1876 Wilde goes from Oxford to West Ashby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, to stay with his uncle, the Revd John
Maxwell Wilde (CL, p.17). [PV]
30 06 1881 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Poems’.
30 06 1883 Wilde lectures to the Royal Academy arts students at their club in Golden Square, Westminster.
30 06 1892 Wilde at the Lyric Club with George Ives.
30 06 1894 Death of Walter Pater.
30 06 1894 The Marquess of Queensberry bursts into Wilde’s home in Tite Street, with a pugilist as bodyguard. [DG]
07 1877 Publication of Wilde’s ‘The Tomb of Keats’ in The Irish Monthly.
07 1879 Wilde in Belgium with Rennell Rodd.
07 1883 Wilde lectures on America at the Prince’s Hall, Piccadilly.
07 1886 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Keats’s ‘Sonnet on Blue’’ in the Century Guild Hobby Horse.
07 1890 Wilde calls at the Gazette offices and protests to S.H. Jeyes about his review of Dorian Gray.
07 1890 Wilde calls at the Whitefriars Club; has long talk about Dorian Gray with Sidney Low.
07 1897 Whistler visits Dieppe and is seen passing by, but does not see, Wilde.
07 1898 Wilde leaves Nogent-sur-Marne.
07 1899 Wilde at Chennevières-sur-Marne.
07 1900 Wilde visits the Rodin Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle.
02 07 1876 Wilde attends morning and evening service at West Ashby church...’argued fiercely with my poor uncle, who revenged himself by preaching on Rome in the morning, and humility in the afternoon. Both very "nasty ones" for me’ (CL, p.18). [PV]
02 07 1917 Death of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
03 07 1876 Wilde ‘runs up’ to London from West Ashby. He finds Frank Miles sketching ‘the most lovely and dangerous woman in London–Lady Desart’. Evening: Wilde goes up to Magdalen College, Oxford, to read for his viva voce exam for Classical Honour Moderations (CL, p.19). [PV]
03 07 1892 Wilde takes the cure at Homburg, staying at 51 Kaiser-Friedrich Promenade.
03 07 1903 Wilde’s creditors paid 13/4d in the £.
04 07 1876 Wilde has got the date of his viva wrong. At 10 a.m. he is ‘lying in bed…with Swinburne (a copy of)’ when he is woken by the Clerk of the Schools arriving to find out why he has not come for his exams. ‘About one o’clock’ he ‘nips up’ to the Schools (next to the Bodleian Library) and is ‘ploughed immediately in Divinity’ for barefaced, if witty, insolence to Dr Spooner. In Moderations he gets ‘a delightful exam from a delightful man’, who would have been one of these College Fellows: W. Lock, Corpus Christi; D. B. Monro, Balliol, later Provost of Oriel; A. O. Prickard, New College; J. Wood, Balliol (CL, pp. 20,21; Oxford Honours). [PV]
04 07 1891 Wilde at the Crabbet Club.
04 07 1895 Wilde is transferred to Wandsworth.
05 07 1876 Evening, 7 p.m.: the Classical Honour Moderations
class list is posted at the Schools. As Wilde is going up the High Street with ‘the B.C.’s [?]’to dine with Nichols’ at Christ Church he is told the list is out but refuses to go and see it, claiming he knows he has a First, swaggering ‘horribly’ and making all the others ‘very ill, absolutely’. [PV]
05 07 1891 Wilde at the Crabbet Club.
06 07 1876 Noon: ‘breakfasting’ at the Mitre Hotel, High Street, Wilde reads the Mods class list in The Times and finds he has indeed got a First. ‘My poor mother is in great delight and I was overwhelmed with telegrams on Thursday from everyone I know’ (CL, pp.20, 21). [PV]
06 07 1895 Mirbeau compares Wilde and Huysmans.
07 07 1876 Wilde goes to London and stays at 4 Albert Street, SW, the lodgings of Charles Harrison ‘Julia’ Tindal, Magdalen undergraduate reading law 1874-77 (CL,pp. 20, 21). [PV]
07 07 1903 Death of Whistler.
08 07 1876 ‘Young Stewy’ dines with Wilde and Tindal - and possibly the Peyton brothers (CL, p. 69). [PV]
08, 11, 12
07 1878 Hearings in a law suit concerning some house property that Wilde has inherited from his father take place in Dublin. Wilde is not present (CL, p.69). [PV]
08 07 1890 Society of Authors Annual Dinner, Criterion Restaurant: Wilde present.
09 07 1876 Wilde hears Cardinal Manning preach at the Church of Our Lady of Victories, South Kensington, the Pro-Cathedral. Wilde visits London Zoo with Tindal, Algernon Peyton, heir to a baronetcy, Magdalen undergraduate 1873-75, and his brother Thomas, Magdalen undergraduate 1875-79 (CL, p.21). [PV]
10 07 1834 Birth of Whistler.
10 07 1871 Birth of Marcel Proust.
10 07 1876 Wilde goes from London to Bingham Rectory, Nottinghamshire, to stay with Frank Miles’s family (CL, p.21). [PV]
10 07 1883 London. Wilde lectures in Prince’s Hall, Piccadilly, on ‘Personal Impressions of America’ for the first time (CL, p. 21; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, pp. 225-6). [PV]
11 07 1895 Birth of Dolly Wilde.
11 07 -15 1876
Wilde attends garden parties at Bingham Rectory and the Duke of Rutland’s(CL, p.22). [PV]
15 07 1878 ‘Ravenna’ published by Thos. Shrimpton & Sons, Oxford. [RW]
13 07 1887 Wilde & Constance give a party at Tite Street.
14 07 1877 From his house in Bradmore Road, Oxford, Walter Pater writes in reply to Wilde’s sending him a copy of The Dublin University Magazine containing his first published prose work, a review of the exhibition at the new Grosvenor Gallery in London. Pater bestows, in Wilde’s words, ‘such sympathetic praise’ and writes: ‘I hope you will give me an early call on your return to Oxford’. [PV]
14 07 1888 Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.
16 07 1879 Wilde publishes ‘Queen Henrietta Maria’ in The World.
17 07 1858 Birth of Florence Balcombe.
17 07 1876 Wilde leaves Bingham Rectory (CL, p.22). [PV]
17 & 20 (between
)
07 1876 Wilde goes home to Dublin (CL, pp.22, 23). [PV]
17 07 1887 Wilde elected a Fellow of the Society of Authors.
17 07 1924 Death of Lovis Corinth.
18 07 1930 Death of Vincent O’Sullivan.
19 07 1878 Wilde’s First in Literae Humaniores (‘Greats’) is announced. [PV]
19 07 1884 Wilde and Constance at first night of ‘Twelfth Night’ (Irving, Ellen Terry, Rose Leclercq).
20 07 1883 Wilde at a poetry recital. Also present Lady Wilde, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Mary Endicott.
20 07 1909 Re-interment of Oscar Wilde at Père Lachaise.
21 07 1858 Birth of Lovis Corinth.
21 07 1888 Death of Mary Atkinson née Hemphill grandmother of Constance Wilde.
22 07 1878 Gaudy Dinner at Magdalen College, Oxford. Wilde, the College’s first Newdigate Prize-winner for more than half a century, with top Firsts in Mods’ and ‘Greats’, has been invited to the Gaudy. The Gaudy speech at the dinner is made by Herbert Warren, Probationer Fellow (and next President of Magdalen, 1885-1928). Wilde to William Ward: ‘They made me stay up for the Gaudy and said nice things about me’ (President Bulley’s ‘President’s Note-Book’, Magdalen Archives; CL, p.70). [PV]
23 (prob)
07 1878 Wilde to William Ward: ‘Then I rowed to Pangbourne with Frank Miles in a birchbark canoe! And shot rapids and did wonders everywhere – it was delightful’ (CL, p.70). [PV]
23 07 1887 Wilde and Constance at the Irving benefit, Lyceum Theatre.
24 07 1897 Wilde and Beardsley meet.
25 07 1876 In Grafton Street, Dublin, Wilde happens to meet the Revd John Rigaud, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and his brother Major-General Gibbes Rigaud (CL, p.24). [PV]
25 07 1888 Wilde at the Society of Authors’ Dinner for visiting American writers, Criterion Restaurant. He sits next to Lady Colin Campbell, and this was not a successful placement.
25 07 1888 Yeats visits Lady Wilde for the first time.
26 07 1856 Birth of George Bernard Shaw.
26 07 1883 Margate. 3.30 p.m.: Wilde lectures at the Cliftonville Hotel on ‘Personal Impressions of America’. His notes for this lecture on Cliftonville Hotel paper were sold at Sotheby’s on 19th July 1993, Lot 286.
Ramsgate. 8 p.m.: Wilde lectures on ‘Personal Impressions of America’ (advertisement and ‘trailer’ article for both lectures in Keble’s Gazette, 21st July 1883). [PV]
26 07 1881 Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.
27 07 1894 Meeting between Wilde and George Ives.
28 07 1859 Birth of Mary Anderson.
28 07 1904 Vyvyan Wilde leaves Stonyhurst.
30 07 1884 Wilde at one of Lady Archie Campbell’s Open Air concerts. [AJ]
30 07 1884 Death of Charles Hawtrey.
31 07 1892 Last night of Brookfield’s ‘The Poet & the Puppets’, at the Comedy Theatre.
08 1876 Wilde at Moytura with Frank Miles.
08 1867 Wilde spends three weeks in Paris.
08 1874 J.E.C. Bodley meets Wilde in Dublin during Horse Show Week.
08 1877 Wilde goes to Clonfin House, Granard to shoot.
08 1879 Wilde visits the Sickert family in Dieppe.
08 1880 Wilde moves with Frank Miles to Keats House, Tite Street, Chelsea.
08 1882 Bankruptcy of David Bogue, Wilde’s publisher.
08 1889 Ricketts & Shannon publish The Dial and send a complimentary copy to Wilde.
08 1892 Wilde writes A Woman of No Importance at Grove Farm, Felbrigg, near Cromer, Norfolk [to September].
08 1894 Wilde begins writing The Importance of being Earnest at Worthing, andis joined by Lord Alfred Douglas.
08 1894 Wilde writes the scenario for ‘Mr & Mrs Daventry’ at Worthing.
08 1898 Lord Alfred Douglas leaves Nogent-sur-Marne for Trouville, joining his mother; then to Aix-les-Bains viâ Paris.
08 1899 Wilde moves back to the Hôtel d’Alsace.
01 08 1864 The Wildes visit Bray [to 12th August].
01 08 1883 Wilde lectures at the Winter Gardens, Southport on ‘Personal Impressions of America’ (Donald Mead, ‘Personal Impressions of America: Oscar Wilde at Southport’, The Wildean 16, January 2000) . [PV]
02 08 1867 Birth of Ernest Dowson.
02 08 1883 Wilde sails for New York on board RMS Britannia.
02 08 1888 Wedding of Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge, eventual guardians of the young Wildes.
02 08 1904 Vyvyan Wilde goes to Dr Kümmer’s crammer at Ouchy, Lausanne.
03 08 1893 Contract signed for the publication of ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’
03 08 1881 Mr Gladstone encounters Wilde at the studio of Burne-Jones.
04 08 1867 Birth of Travers Humphreys.
05 08 1850 Birth of Guy de Maupassant.
06 08 1809 Birth of Alfred Tennyson.
06 08 1862 Birth of Elizabeth Robins.
06 08 1885 The Labouchère Amendment (Clause XI of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, sometimes referred to as Clause 2 through the mistaken identification of the Arabic numeral ll with the Roman II).
06 08 1907 Vyvyan Wilde meets Robbie Ross for the first time.
07 08 1894 Wilde lunches at the Café Royal with Lord Alfred Douglas and Max Beerbohm.
08 08 1892 Edward Carson takes his seat in the House of Commons.
09? 08 1900 Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas dine at the Grand Café.
11 08 1883 Wilde arrives in New York.
11 08 1888 Wedding of Whistler and Beatrix Godwin.
12 08 1894 Alfred Taylor arrested in the police raid on 46 Fitzroy Street.
15 08 1844 Birth of Walter Crane.
15 08 1858 Birth of Emma Calvé.
16 08 1893 Wilde at last night of A Woman of No Importance.
18 08 1849 Birth of Gyp de Martel.
18 08 1860 Birth of Jules Laforgue.
19 08 1906 James Joyce finishes reading ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’.
20 08 1838 Birth of Augustin Daly.
28 08 1855 Wedding of HoraceLloyd and Adelaide (Adele) Atkinson, the parents of Constance Wilde.
20 08 1883 Wilde at production of Vera (Union Square Theatre, New York).
21 08 1872 Birth of Aubrey Beardsley.
23 08 1842 Birth of John Payne.
23 08 1991 Foundation of the first Irish Oscar Wilde Society.
24 08 1872 Birth of Max Beerbohm.
25 08 1836 Birth of Bret Harte.
25 08 1880 Publication of Wilde’s sonnet ‘Ave Imperatrix’ in The World.
26 08 1895 Sherard visits Wilde in Wandsworth.
28 08 1897 Or perh. 29th. Wilde gives a children’s party at Berneval.
28 08 1898 Lord Ronald Gower and Frank Hird travel from Tours to Paris.
28/9 08 1897 Lord Alfred Douglas in Rouen.
29 08 1862 Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck.
29 08 1897 Lord Alfred Douglas leaves Rouen for Paris.
30 08 1898 Lord Ronald Gower and Frank Hird travel from Paris to Strasbourg, Heidelberg and Dresden.
31 08 1811 Birth of Théophile Gautier.
09 1878 Publication of Augustus Moore’s ‘To Oscar Wilde, author of Ravenna’ in The Irish Monthly.
09 1880 Wilde’s ‘Vera’ published by Ranken & Co.
09 1888 Yeats meets Wilde at the house of W.E. Henley.
09 1892 Wilde at a house party given by Mrs Walter Palmer.
09 1894 Wilde finishes ‘The Importance of being Earnest’.
09 1895 Constance Wilde moves to Sori, near Bogliasco.
09 1897 Wilde interviewed in Dieppe by Gideon Spilett for ‘Gil Blas’.
09 1897 Wilde suggests that Dowson should translate Louÿs’ ‘Aphrodite’.
07 09 1893 Wilde stays the night in Jersey for a performance of A Woman of No Importance
09 09 1900 George Ives sends Wilde £5/-/-.
09 09 1904 Stuart Mason finishes his translation of André Gide: ‘Oscar Wilde, A Study from the French’. Oxford: Holywell Press 1905.
09 09 1886 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Balzac in English’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
09 09 1886 Wilde meets Bernard Shaw at J.F. Molloy’s house, Red Lion Square, London.
09 09 1897 Wilde in Rouen.
12 09 1939 Death of David ‘Dunsky’ Hunter Blair [no hyphen]. [PV]
16-18 09 1994 First Oscar Wilde Autumn School held in Bray, Co Wicklow.
17 09 1874 Wilde matriculates at Oxford.
20 09 1886 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Ben Jonson’ in The Pall Mall Gazette.
20 09 1893 First night of Henry Arthur Jones’ ‘The Tempter’, but Wilde at the Alhambra with Lord Alfred Douglas.
20 09 1897 Wilde leaves Dieppe for Paris, staying in a hotel in the rue de Helder. Constance Wilde writes to Oscar a letter full of anger : ‘I forbid you to see Lord Alfred Douglas. I forbid you to return to your filthy, insane life. I forbid you to live at Naples. I will not allow you to come to Genoa’. [DG]
21 09 1895 Constance Wilde visits Wilde in Wandsworth.
24 09 1883 Wilde begins lecture tour in England, lasting on and off all year.
24 09 1895 Wilde’s first examination in bankruptcy.
25c 09 1897 Wilde arrives at Naples and stays with Douglas at the Hôtel Royal des Etrangers.
25 09 1880 Wilde’s ‘Pan, A Villanelle’ published in ‘Pan’.
26 09 1852 Birth of William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (Willie).
27 09 1887 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Two Biographies of Keats’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
27 09 1889 Wilde attends Wilkie Collins’ funeral
27 09 1897 Wilde stays at the Villa Giudice, Posillipo [37 via Posillipo].
29 09 1991 First meeting of the Irish Oscar Wilde Society, Bewley’s Café, Dublin.
30 09 1853 Birth of David ‘Dunsky’ Hunter Blair [no hyphen]. [PV]
30 09 1881 Wilde receives telegram from Colonel Morse suggesting the U.S. lecture tour.
10 1875 At Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde moves into the two-room set designated ‘Cloisters VIII, Ground Floor Right’ (Rooms Register, Magdalen Archives). [PV]
10 1878 At Oxford Wilde moves into lodgings--rooms above a chemist’s shop at 71 High Street (Oxford University lodgings records, Bodleian Library; Oxford City Directories). [PV]
1879 Wilde visits Oscar Browning in Cambridge.
10 1888 Wilde proposed but not accepted for the Savile Club.
10 1889 Wilde gives up the editorship of ‘Woman’s World’.
10 1889 Publication of Constance Wilde’s ‘There Was Once’.
10 1893 Wilde takes rooms at 10 and 11 St. James’s Place and writes ‘An Ideal Husband’ there.
10 1894 Wilde at Brighton with Lord Alfred Douglas.
01 10 1881 Wilde sends telegram to Colonel Morse accepting the U.S. lecture tour.
02 10 1872 Wilde gives ‘Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold’ to Helena Sickert.
05 10 1918 Death of Robert Ross of a heart failure in his flat of Halfmoon Street. He was aged just forty nine. His friend Siegfried Sassoon noted ‘It seems reasonable to claim that this was the only occasion on which his heart failed him’ [DG]
05 10 1918 Death of George du Maurier.
07 10 1922 Death of Lily Texeira de Mattos.
09 10 1891 Wilde at first night of Zola’s ‘Thérèse Raquin’ at the Royalty Theatre.
10 10 1871 Wilde goes up to Trinity College Dublin, with rooms at 18 Botany Bay [to 1874].
10 10 1874 Start of the Michaelmas Term at Oxford University. Wilde starts at Magdalen College. [PV]
10 10 1900 Wilde’s operation.
10 10 1967 Death of Vyvyan Holland.
11 10 1883 Wilde among those who see Irving and Ellen Terry off to the USA on the Britannic for their first American tour.
14 10 1884 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Woman’s Dress’ in The Pall Mall
Gazette.
15 10 1877 The Magdalen Officers ‘resolve’: ‘That the Officers having considered the reasons given by Mr. Wilde for not having prepared the work assigned by his Tutor in accordance with the Orders are so far satisfied that they will inflict no further penalty than that already imposed, of the loss of the emoluments of his Demyship for the half-year ending Michaelmas 1877’ (President Bulley’s ‘President’s Note-Book’, Magdalen Archives). [PV]
15 10 1893 Wilde dines at the Savoy with George Ives and (perhaps) Raffalovich and Sir Egbert Sebright.
15 10 1897 Wilde visits Capri with Lord Alfred Douglas.
16 10 1854 BIRTH OF OSCAR WILDE.
16 10 1954 Sir Compton Mackenzie (Magdalen 1901-1904) unveils plaque on Wilde’s house in Tite Street.
16 10 1891 Wilde lunches with William Heinemann.
16 10 1894 For his fortieth birthday, Oscar receives a vindictive letter from Douglas concluding with these words : ‘When you are not on your pedestal, you are not interesting. The next time you are ill I will go away at once.’ [DG]
17 10 1891 The musical comedy ‘La Cigale’ achieved its first anniversary at the Savoy, and a Birthday Celebration was held at the theatre. Arthur Bryan covered a whole page (No. 176) in the 17th October issue of the broadsheet Sporting and Dramatic News with caricatures of the guests. Wilde appears prominently among them. [RW]
17 10 1900 Robert Ross arrives in Paris and visits Wilde.
18 10 1897 Wilde leaves Capri.
19 10 1893 Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas are guests of George
Ives.
19 10 1894 Death of Lord Drumlanrig.
20 10 1900 Wedding of Lily Wilde and Alexander Texeira de Mattos.
20 10 1913 Death of Charles Brookfield.
22 10 1871 Birth of Lord Alfred Douglas.
22 10 1882 Wilde gives an interview to the New York World.
22 10 1935 Death of Edward Carson.
25 10 1900 First night of ‘Mr & Mrs Daventry’.
25 10 1900 Alec Ross and Lily Texeira de Mattos visit Wilde.
27 10 1891 Wilde breakfasts with Wilfrid Blunt, George Curzon and Willy Peel in Paris.
29 10 1877 Mr Gladstone writes to Lady Wilde.
30 10 1935 Death of Sibell Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry.
31 10 1875 Wilde and Bodley breakfast at the Mitre and go on to Wilde’s rooms.
1883 Wilde begins ‘The Duchess of Padua’.
11 1884 Wilde’s last visit to Ireland. Stays in Dublin at the Shelbourne Hotel.
11 1884?
Wilde and Constance visit Oscar Browning in Cambridge.
11 1888 Ill-mannered exchange between Whistler and Wilde in ‘The World’.
11 1891 Wilde in Paris (19 boulevard des Capucines), writing ‘Salome’.
11 1891 Wilde visits Lord Lytton several times at the British Embassy.
11 1892 The Wildes rent Babbacombe Cliff, near Torquay.
11 1898 Frank Harris is in Paris and gives Wilde dinner at Durand’s.
01 11 1888 Mr Gladstone writes to Wilde.
02 11 1891 Wilde lunches at the British Embassy.
03 11 1891 Visit by Wilde to a Mallarmé ‘Mardi’.
03 11 1907 Vyvyan Wilde comes of age.
06 11 1897 The Academy prints a list of 40 possible members of a British Academy of Letters. Shaw and H.G. Wells suggest Wilde (13, 20.11.1897).
06 11 1882 Wilde at first night of Tom Taylor’s ‘An Unequal Match’, Wallack’s Theatre, New York.
06 11 1888 Wilde lectures at the Somerville Club for the Rational Dress Society.
07 11 1882 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Mrs Langtry as Hester Grazebrook’ in the ‘New York World’.
10 11 1880 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Libertatis Sacra Fames’ in the ‘New York World’.
12 11 1851 Wedding of Jane Elgee and William Wilde.
12 11 1895 Wilde’s second examination in bankruptcy.
12 11 1900 Robert Ross visits Wilde at the Hotel d’Alsace but leaves to join his mother in the south of France. [DG]
14 11 1887 Wilde attends magistrate’s court hearing of Cunninghame Graham and John Burns, arrested on Bloody Sunday. Haldane, Asquith and Mrs Pankhurst also present.
16 11 1889 Yeats visits Lady Wilde.
18 11 1885 Publication of Wilde’s ‘A Handbook to Marriage’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
18 11 1886 Publication of Wilde’s ‘A "Jolly" Art Critic’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
18 11 1892 Correction to 18 11 1892 Should read ‘Wilde first meets Fred Atkins’ at Little College Street. Neil McKenna: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Century/Random House 2003 p.211.
19 11 1873 Wilde elected to the ‘Hist’ at Trinity.
20 11 1883 Wilde gives a lecture on poetry in Dublin.
20 11 1895 Wilde transferred to Reading Gaol. The Clapham Junction incident.
21 11 1892 Wilde goes to Paris with Fred Atkins by the 2.45 Club Train. Neil McKenna: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Century/Random House 2003 p.211.
21 11 1896 Alleged visit by Frank Harris to Wilde in Reading Gaol.
22 11 1883 Wilde lectures on ‘The House Beautiful’ and ‘Personal Impressions of America’ in Dublin.
22 11 1932 Death of Richard Reginald ‘Kitten’ Harding [‘not Reginald Richard’, as Ellmann p. 43 has it, the mistake
originating in the Magdalen Record]. [PV]
23 11 1875 Wilde at the dedication by Cardinal Manning of S. Aloysius, Oxford.
24 11 1886 Wilde lectures on Chatterton at Birkbeck College, London.
26 11 1883 Wilde and Constance become engaged.
26 11 1871 Wilde becomes a Queen’s Scholar.
26 11 1891 First meeting of Wilde and Gide?
27 11 1882 Wilde leaves America on the S.S. Bothnia from New York.
28 11 1878 Wilde takes his B.A. at Oxford.
28 11 1891 Second meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Heredia.
28 11 1900 Carlos Blacker goes to Paris from Freiburg, but delays going to see Wilde.
29 11 1891 First meeting between Wilde and Pierre Loüys. Third meeting of Wilde and Gide.
30 11 1881 Wilde withdraws ‘Vera’ from production.
30 11 1891 Fourth meeting of Wilde and Gide.
30 11 1950 Ceremony at Père Lachaise to mark 50th anniversary of Wilde’s death. Robbie Ross’s ashes are buried beside Wilde. Those present include Francis Marquess of Queensberry and H. Montgomery Hyde.
12 1887 Gissing attends a lecture on art by Wilde.
12 1889 Wilde attends the thought reading session of Dr Onofroff.
12 1889 Conversation between Yeats and Wilde.
12 1893 Wilde and Queensberry meet at the Café Royal.
12 1894 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Phrases & Philosophies for the Use of the Young’ in ‘The Chameleon’.
12 1897 Wilde visits Sicily with Lord Alfred Douglas.
12 1897 Wilde meets J. Joseph Renaud at lunch.
12 1898 Laurence Housman sends Wilde ‘All-Fellows’.
12 1898 A.E. Housman sends Wilde ‘A Shropshire Lad’.
02 12 1891 Fifth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Stuart Merrill’s.
03 12 1891 Sixth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Aristide Bruant’s with Marcel Schwob.
03 12 1900 Wilde’s funeral at Bagneux.
04 12 1875 J. E.C. Bodley and Arnold Fitzgerald call on Wilde at Magdalen’ (J.E.C. Bodley’s diary, Bodleian Library). [PV]
04 12 1882 First mention of Wilde in Sweden, in ‘The Göteborg Newspaper’.
06 12 1891 Seventh meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Princess Ouroussof.
07 12 1891 Eighth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Marcel Schwob’s.
08 12 1888 Publication of Wilde’s ‘English Poetesses’ in ‘Queen’.
08 12 1891 Ninth meeting of Wilde and Gide. Dinner at Aristide Bruant’s.
08 12 1900 Short piece on Wilde by Max Beerbohm in ‘The Saturday Review’.
10 12 1883 Wilde lectures at the Claughton Music Hall, Birkenhead; Robert Le Gallienne in the audience.
11 12 1888 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Sir Edwin Arnold’s Last Volume’ in ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’.
11 12 1891 Tenth meeting of Wilde and Gide.
12 12 1864 Travers v. Wilde opens [to 17th December].
12 12 1891 Eleventh meeting of Wilde and Gide.
13 12 1891 Twelfth meeting of Wilde and Gide, chez Princess Ouroussof, with Henri de Régnier.
13 12 1893 Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas dine with George Ives at the Albemarle Club.
14 12 1876 Wilde at the Albert Hall for a performance of Haydn’s ‘Creation’.
15 12 1876 Wilde & David Hunter Blair see Ellen Terry in ‘New Men and Old Acres’ at the Court Theatre.
15 12 1891 Thirteenth meeting of Wilde and Gide plus Marcel Schwob.
15 12 1898 Wilde leaves for La Napoule, near Cannes.
16 12 1876 Wilde goes to see Henry Irving in ‘Macbeth’ with Arthur Dampier May.
16 12 1885 Publication of Wilde’s ‘Aristotle at Afternoon Tea’ in The Pall Mall Gazette.
17 12 1876 Wilde leaves for Ireland.
17 12 1878 End of Michaelmas Term at Oxford
17 12 1881 Wilde’s ‘Vera’ due, but fails, to open at the Adelphi Theatre with Mrs Bernard Beere in the title rôle.
17 12 1889 Wilde attends inaugural dinner for ‘The Speaker’, a new weekly.
17 12 1891 Wilde writes to Margot Asquith saying he had dedicated ‘The Star Child’ to her.
17 12 1891 Article on Wilde by Sherard (with contributions by Wilde!) appears in ‘Le Gaulois’.
19 12 1889 First night of Frank Benson’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Wilde ‘a frequent visitor’.
23 12 1883 Whistler gives a breakfast party for Wilde and Constance; Lord and Lady Garmoyle also present.
23c 12 1881 Wilde dines at ‘one of the taverns of Bohemia’ with Whistler and Rennell Rodd ‘just before’ leaving for America.
23 12 1893 Wilde dines with George Ives at the New Travellers Club.
24 12 1881 Wilde embarks for America on the Guion Line’s Arizona.
25 12 1888 Yeats keeps Christmas with the Wildes.
25 12 1894 Wilde attends rehearsal of ‘An Ideal Husband’.
29 12 1877 Publication of Wilde’s article on Henry O’Neill anonymously in Saunders’ Newsletter, Dublin (but 29.12.1878 is also given).
29 12 1878 Publication of Wilde’s article on Henry O’Neill in Saunders’ Newsletter, Dublin (but see 29.12.1877 as
