![]() Wilde’s biographer, Richard Ellmann, notes that Lady Wilde renamed herself “Speranza Francesca Wilde” and frequently pretended to be younger than she truthfully was, which helps to explain Wilde’s fascination with name and age in his later work (6-7). Wilde’s mother, born Jane Frances Elgee, was a woman of immense character whose thoughts and actions heavily influenced her son. ![]() (William Wilde also had three illegitimate children whom he continued to support). He was the second child of parents Sir William and Jane Wilde his older brother, William Robert Kingsbury Wills Wilde, was born in 1852 and his younger sister, Isola Francesca Emily Wilde, would be born in 1857. ![]() Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16th, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.
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