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Oscar Wilde

This person is a famous and accomplished Irish playwright, poet, novelist, critic, and lecturer.

Lady Wilde

This is the writer's mother, who is instrumental in the rise of his fame.

Walter Pater

A friend of the writer's from Oxford who writes influential books about aestheticism, this individual influences the writer until he takes his own way with ideas.

John Ruskin

This person is an Oxford friend to the focus of this book who writes about the need for discipline.

Sir William Wilde

This person is the writer's father, central to the writer's staying Protestant while he considers conversion to Catholicism.

Florence Balcombe

An early romantic interest for the writer, this person married Bram Stoker.

James McNeill Whistler

This individual is an artist friend of the writer's who takes more than he gives, if anything, and becomes an enemy in his later life.

Constance Wilde

This woman...

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