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1854 (16 Oct) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde* is born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, the second son of William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and author (born Mar 1815, knighted 1864), and his wife Jane Francesca (‘Speranza’), née Elgee (born 1826), poet, author and Irish nationalist, who married on 14 November 1851. OW’s elder brother, William Robert Kingsbury Wills Wilde, was born on 26 September 1852. Arthur Rimbaud is born on 20 October. The Battle of Balaclava takes place on 25 October, the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November.
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Page, N. (1991). An Oscar Wilde Chronology. In: An Oscar Wilde Chronology. Macmillan Author Chronologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10069-9_1
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