• Irish cricketer and rugby union player Dickie Lloyd was regarded as one of the most famous pupils of Portora Royal School, alongside Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde?
• Walter Herries Pollock, editor of the Saturday Review, was close friends with a number of writers including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde?
• Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde?
• in 1883, a dozen years before Oscar Wilde was convicted for Gross Indecency, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News published a cartoon showing him in convict dress?
• items from the collection of Mark Samuels Lasner relating to Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and other writers and artists of the 1890s have provided the basis for numerous publications and exhibitions?
• Marc-André Raffalovich, a French poet, writer on homosexuality, and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray, the purported model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray?
• Lady Florence Dixie (pictured), feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?
• Max Beerbohm's 1894 satire on Oscar Wilde A Peep into the Past was not published until 1923?
• Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest?
• Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton?
• Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper (pictured) because it provided better views?
• Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony (pictured) in Crawley, West Sussex?

Facts on topics related to Oscar Wilde

Lord Alfred Douglas

• Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony (pictured) in Crawley, West Sussex?
• Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton?
• Lady Florence Dixie (pictured), feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?

Edgar Allan Poe

• "The Iron Shroud" by William Mudford influenced Edgar Allan Poe's writing of the "Pit and the Pendulum"?
• Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil?
• Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
• Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
• Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
• Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes?
• Knickerbocker Epes Sargent (pictured) wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise?
• Anne Lynch Botta (pictured) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions?
• William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster?
• a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?

Jorge Luis Borges

• Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?
• the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
• the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
• the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?