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Plays of Oscar Wilde: Queen Victoria's England

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Queen Victoria's England:

Every writer is marked by the age in which he lives and writes. Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900) passed the whole of his short life in the reign of Queen
Victoria. In his own unique way, he was as much affected by this fact as was
Alfred Lord Tennyson, who is usually thought of as the supremely
representative poet of Victoria's world, or Rudyard Kipling, who is known as
the spokesman for Victoria's worldwide Empire, so farflung that the sun never
set on it.

When Victoria became queen in 1837, the royal family was neither popular
nor ...

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