List of Published Writings of Oscar Wilde .............. 93 Bibliographical Notes on The English Editions .......... 107 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Cartoon: 'How Utter' .......................... Frontispiece (From a Cartoon published by Messrs. Shrimpton at Oxford about 1880. By permission of Mr. Hubert Giles, 23 Broad St., Oxford). Oscar Wilde at Oxford, 1878 ............................ 16 (By permission of Mr. Hubert Giles). Oscar Wilde in 1893 .................................... 48 (From a Photograph by Messrs. Gillman & Co., Oxford). The Grave at Bagneux ................................... 80 (By permission of the Proprietors of _The Sphere_ and _The Tatler_). Reduced Facsimile of the Cover of _'The Woman's World'_ 96 * * * * * Oscar Wilde Introductory. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born at 1 Merrion Square, North, Dublin, on October 16th, 1854. He was the second son of Sir William Robert Wilde, Knight, a celebrated surgeon who was President of the Irish Academy and Chairman of the Census Committee. Sir William Wilde was born in 1799, and died at the age of seventy-seven years. Oscar Wilde's mother was Jane Francesca, daughter of Archdeacon Elgee. She was born in 1826, and married in 1851. She became famous in literary circles under the pen-names of 'Speranza' and 'John Fenshawe Ellis,' among her published writings being _Driftwood from Scandinavia_ (1884), _Legends of Ireland_ (1886), and _Social Studies_ (1893). Lady Wilde died at her residence in Chelsea on February 3rd, 1896[1].