"""psychological collapse more prolonged and more convincing."" The introduction of the James Vane character to the story develops the socio-economic background of the Sibyl Vane character, thus emphasising Dorian's selfishness and foreshadowing James's accurate perception of the essentially immoral character of Dorian Gray; thus, he correctly deduced Dorian’s dishonourable intent towards Sibyl. The sub-plot about James Vane's dislike of Dorian gives the novel a Victorian tinge of class struggle. With such textual changes, Oscar Wilde meant to diminish the moralistic controversy about the novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Consequent to the harsh criticism of the magazine edition of the"
"la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps"" (""The Oscar Wilde Affair, or, On the Danger of Allowing Justice to put its Nose in our Sheets"") by , a French religious historian. Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish"
"it. Wilde contacted Couperus and sent him his book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The exchange of letters between Wilde and Louis Couperus and his wife Elisabeth Couperus-Baud resulted in the first translation of Wilde's novel, published in 1893, in Dutch by ""mevrouw Louis Couperus"" (Mrs. Louis Couperus). Most of the other translations of the work of Louis Couperus were of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1855–1921) who married later the widow of Wilde's brother Willie Wilde. Clara Bell Clara Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was an English translator fluent in French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish, noted for"
"Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at"
"as the ""stereotypical poet of the nineties"". John Gray (poet) Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ""Silverpoints"", ""The Long Road"" and ""Park: A Fantastic Story"". It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence of the contrary. Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he was the first of nine children. He left school at the age of 13 and began work as an apprentice metal-worker at the Royal Arsenal. He continued his education by"
"John Gray (poet) Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ""Silverpoints"", ""The Long Road"" and ""Park: A Fantastic Story"". It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence of the contrary. Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he was the first of nine children. He left school at the age of 13 and began work as an apprentice metal-worker at the Royal Arsenal. He continued his education by attending a series of evening classes, studying"
"Oscar Wilde bibliography This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for ""The Importance of being Earnest"", and as the author of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray""; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism. His private correspondence has also been published. Wilde was declared bankrupt to pay legal costs after his conviction for ""gross indecency"", and his possessions - including manuscripts, letters, books and presentation volumes of all the major literary figures of his day - were sold by"
"the National Gallery of Canada. Richards died in Glassonby, Cumberland, England on 26 November 1934. Frances Richards (Canadian artist) Frances Richards (or Frances Richards Rowley, or Frances Elswood Richards) (1852–1934) was a Canadian painter who grew up in Canada and lived, during the latter part of her life, in England. Her portrait of Oscar Wilde may have inspired him to write ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Frances Richards was born in Brockville, Ontario, the daughter of Albert Norton Richards, who was later the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. In 1888 she married William Edwin Rowley in London. Richards studied in Paris"
"was ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1891). During the dinner party the two authors chatted, and Wilde disclosed that he had read ""Micah Clarke"" and liked it. Conan Doyle mentioned the incident in his 1924 autobiography, ""Memories and Adventures"". He explained that he and Wilde became friendly, but that the friendship remained a distant one at best, and that it grew more distant as Wilde's reputation became questionable. The actual friendly relationship appears to be true, but that Wilde liked ""Micah Clarke"" remains at issue. In the 1999 biography of Conan Doyle, ""Teller of Tales"", author Daniel Stashower suspects that"
"a painting of Swiss landscape that reminds him of a view he saw while at a sanatorium in Switzerland, and also when he first sees the face of his love interest, Nastasya, in the form of a painted portrait. At one point in the novel, Nastasya, too, describes a painting of Christ, her own imaginary work that portrays Christ with a child, an image which naturally evokes comparison between the image of the dead Christ. The Irish aesthete and novelist Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890/1891) tells how Basil Hallward paints a picture of the young man named"
"of Gautier's plays were never published or reluctantly accepted. Between the years 1839 and 1850, Gautier wrote all or part of nine different plays: Two poems from ""Émaux et camées""—""Sur les lagunes"" and the second of two titled ""Études de Mains""—are featured in Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Dorian reads them out of the book shortly after Basil Hallward's murder. Ernest Fanelli's ""Tableaux Symphoniques"" are based on Gautier's novel ""Le Roman de la Momie"". In ""Peter Whiffle"" by Carl Van Vechten, the main character Peter Whiffle cites Gautier as a great influence and writer, among others. Théophile Gautier"
"the romantic novelist Amelia Opie, and the travelogue author George Borrow. Physiognomy is a central, implicit assumption underlying the plot of Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 19th-century American literature, physiognomy figures prominently in the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Phrenology, also considered a form of physiognomy, was created around 1800 by German physician Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, and was widely popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States. In the U.S., physician James W. Redfield published his ""Comparative Physiognomy"" in 1852, illustrating with 330 engravings the ""Resemblances between Men and Animals""."
"of the published versions. The summary below deals with the longest version, the 1891 novel. However, certain episodes describe in particular Dorian's encounter with (and subsequent murder of) James Vane. This does not appear in the version originally submitted by Wilde for publishing. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" begins on a summer day in Victorian England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting a portrait of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, who is Basil's ultimate muse. While posing for the painting, Dorian listens to Lord Henry espousing his hedonistic worldview and"
"Hurd Hatfield William Rukard Hurd Hatfield (December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor. He was best known for often playing characters of handsome, narcissistic young men, most notably Dorian Gray in the film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1945). Hatfield was born in New York City to William Henry Hatfield (died 1954), an attorney who served as deputy attorney general for New York, and his wife, Adele (née McGuire). He was educated at Columbia University before traveling to London, England where he studied drama and began acting in theatre. He returned to America for his film"
"Frances Richards (Canadian artist) Frances Richards (or Frances Richards Rowley, or Frances Elswood Richards) (1852–1934) was a Canadian painter who grew up in Canada and lived, during the latter part of her life, in England. Her portrait of Oscar Wilde may have inspired him to write ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Frances Richards was born in Brockville, Ontario, the daughter of Albert Norton Richards, who was later the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. In 1888 she married William Edwin Rowley in London. Richards studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. In Paris she made friends with the Russian painter Marie Bashkirtseff"
"with a British editor and British contributors. The dinner was also attended by Oscar Wilde, who eventually contributed ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" to the July 1890 issue. Doyle discussed what he called this ""golden evening"" in his 1924 autobiography ""Memories and Adventures"". The novel first appeared in the February 1890 edition of ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" as ""The Sign of the Four; or The Problem of the Sholtos"" (five-word title), appearing in both London and Philadelphia. The British edition of the magazine originally sold for a shilling, and the American for 25 cents. Surviving copies are now worth several thousand"
"the assumption that Vivian Grey is synonymous with the young Benjamin Disraeli. The British poet Mary Montgomerie Lamb took her pen name 'Violet Fane' from a character in this novel. Some commentaters have suggested that ""Vivian Grey"" influenced Oscar Wilde in the writing of his only novel, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Vivian Grey Vivian Grey is Benjamin Disraeli's first novel, published by Henry Colburn in 1826. Originally published anonymously, ostensibly by a so-called ""man of fashion,"" part 1 caused a considerable sensation in London society. Contemporary reviewers, suspicious of the numerous solecisms contained within the text, eventually identified the"
"Kazimierz Czachowski Kazimierz Czachowski or Kazimierz Stanisław Czachowski (Łyszkowice near Łowicz, November 28, 1890 – August 17, 1948, Kraków) was a Polish literary critic and historian, active predominantly in the Second Polish Republic. He was awarded the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1937 for his monographs about world-renowned authors such as Henryk Sienkiewicz, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, John Galsworthy and others. He translated into Polish ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde (1928). He wrote under several different pen names including ""Dionizy"", ""Adam Korabski"" and ""Ludowiec"", and specialized in the literature of Polish ""positivism"" and"
"the shorter, more inflammatory, magazine version in England the previous year, published the revised version of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The only novel written by Wilde, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the ""uncensored"" version submitted to ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters). As literature of the 19th century, ""The"
"he told the publisher, George Lippincott, ""in its present condition there are a number of things an innocent woman would make an exception to. ..."" Among the pre-publication deletions that Stoddart and his editors made to the text of Wilde's original manuscript were: (i) passages alluding to homosexuality and to homosexual desire; (ii) all references to the fictional book title ""Le Secret de Raoul"" and its author, Catulle Sarrazin; and (iii) all ""mistress"" references to Gray's lovers, Sibyl Vane and Hetty Merton. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" was published on 20 June 1890, in the July issue of ""Lippincott's Monthly"
"about Elisabeth Couperus-Baud in his novel ""De zwaluwen neergestreken"": ""We are cousins and played together as children. We still own photographs of ourselves together, when we were young."" In 1893 Louis Couperus received a letter from Oscar Wilde, in which he was complemented with his novel ""Noodlot""; this book was translated into English by Clara Bell. As a result of the correspondence Elisabeth Couperus-Baud was asked to translate Wilde's book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After her marriage to Louis Couperus, Couperus-Baud was active as a critic of her husband's work and made readable copies of his handwritings. In time"
"another."" The name of Dorian Gray's love interest, Sibyl Vane, may be a modified fusion of the title of Disraeli's best known novel (""Sybil"") and Vivian Grey's love interest Violet Fane, who, like Sibyl Vane, dies tragically. There is also a scene in ""Vivian Grey"" in which the eyes in the portrait of a ""beautiful being"" move when its subject dies. ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" originally was a novella submitted to ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" for serial publication. In 1889, J. M. Stoddart, an editor for Lippincott, was in London to solicit novellas to publish in the magazine. On 30"
"Don DaGradi Don DaGradi (March 1, 1911 – August 4, 1991) was a Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film ""Lady and the Tramp"" in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for ""Mary Poppins"" in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Friday Harbor,"
"the most famous was ""The Well at the World's End"" (1896). He was deeply inspired by the medieval romances and sagas; his style was deliberately archaic, based on medieval romances. In many respects, Morris was an important milestone in the history of fantasy, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented world: a fantasy world. Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) and Oscar Wilde (in ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", 1890) also developed fantasy, in the telling of horror tales, a"
"Charles S. Dorion Charles S. Dorion (a.k.a. C.S. Dorian) was an American painter during the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and was known for his moonlit Seascapes. He typically signed his paintings in the lower left or right hand side as C.S. Dorion in the color red. Very little is known of this artist, but his works continue to be auctioned off regularly. Charles was most likely born in Quebec, Canada, and moved to New York City sometime after 1880. He had a publishing company called C.S. Dorion, and was the 8th company to publish Edgar Allan Poe's ""the"
"best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote ""Salome"" (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed,"
"his sins in physical form. The portrait, by contrast, once more shows Dorian Gray as a young, innocent man. Two paintings of the character Dorian Gray were used in the film. The painting entitled ""Picture of Dorian Gray"" used at the end of the film was painted on commission during the making of the film in 1943-1944 by Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, an American artist who was well known as a painter of the macabre. Created specifically for use in the film, it is now part of the art collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Albright had to paint"
"Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys ""Dodie"" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1956). Other works include ""I Capture the Castle"" (1948), and ""The Starlight Barking"" (1967). ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel ""I Capture the Castle"" was adapted into a 2003 movie version. ""I Capture the Castle"" was voted number 82 as ""one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels"" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003)."
"Richard Fraser (actor) Richard Fraser (born Richard Mackie Simpson; 15 March 1913 – 19 January 1972) was a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1945 film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After graduating from Sedbergh School as Richard Mackie Simpson, Richard's mother divorced and his name was shortened to Richard Mackie. After attending Cambridge University, Richard Mackie studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Having spent time as a London stage actor, Richard emigrated to the US and in New York married Louise Christine Sheldon, the couple then"
"Richard Fraser (actor) Richard Fraser (born Richard Mackie Simpson; 15 March 1913 – 19 January 1972) was a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1945 film ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After graduating from Sedbergh School as Richard Mackie Simpson, Richard's mother divorced and his name was shortened to Richard Mackie. After attending Cambridge University, Richard Mackie studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Having spent time as a London stage actor, Richard emigrated to the US and in New York married Louise Christine Sheldon, the couple then"
"to the hero that the moral laws are the same in the world he is about to enter as in the world he came from; this lends weight and importance to his actions in this world, however fantastical it is. Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde (in ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"") also developed fantasy, in the telling of horror tales, a separate branch of fantasy that was to have great influence on H. P. Lovecraft and other writers of dark fantasy. Wilde also wrote a large number of children's fantasies, collected in ""The Happy Prince and"
"and his Maid"" was staged. Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas ""The Gondoliers"", or, ""The King of Barataria"" (1889), ""Utopia, Limited"", or, ""The Flowers of Progress"" (1893) and ""The Grand Duke"", or, ""The Statutory Duel"" (1896) were all staged. Lewis Carroll's last novel, the two-volume Sylvie and Bruno, was published in 1889 and 1893 respectively. In 1889 Oscar Wilde published ""The Portrait of Mr. W. H."". In 1890 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published ""The Sign of the Four"". H. Rider Haggard published ""The Saga of Eric Brighteyes"" an epic viking novel. Oscar Wilde published ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 1891 Herman"
"at ALB Anouk Le Bourdiec Gallery in Paris, France. When asked ″although your characters are caught in a very shady moment, there is something beautiful and poetic in the way they are represented, tell us more about this duality″, The Kid answered ″I’ve always been attracted by this line in ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde: ″behind every exquisite thing lies something tragic″, I think this is pretty much what all of my works have in common. Despite their youth and beauty, all of my subjects are doomed to fail, like a flower is destined to fade. And"