Travel Reference
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Oscar Wilde,
born in Dublin and a graduate of Trinity College, wowed London with
his quick wit, outrageous clothes, and flamboyant personality. Wilde wrote the darkly fas-
cinating novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1890) and skewered upper-class Victorian so-
ciety in witty comedic plays (such as
The Importance of Being Earnest,
1895), with char-
acters who speak very elegantly about the trivial concerns of the idle rich. He was the toast
of London in the 1890s—before the scandal of his homosexuality turned Victorian society
against him. Meanwhile,
Bram Stoker
was conjuring up a Gothic thriller called
Dracula
(1897).
