Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde, darling of the Aesthetic Movement. By the time Oscar Wilde was a precocious undergraduate at Oxford, the Aesthetic Movement was in full flower.
Costumed in a cello-shaped bronze coat he had tailored to wear at the opening of the important Grosvenor Gallery in 1877, the budding arbiter of taste decided on the spot, as he put it, "to take up the critic's life. " His review of the Grosvenor show of Aesthetic art, for the Dublin University Magazine, was Wilde's first published prose work.
Wilde life Review to find. The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde - Neil McKenna. Bunburying. The Victorian Period. The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death).
As a matter of expediency, these dates are sometimes modified slightly. 1830 is usually considered the end of the Romantic period in Britain, and thus makes a convenient starting date for Victorianism. Similarly, since Queen Victoria’s death occurred so soon in the beginning of a new century, the end of the previous century provides a useful closing date for the period. The Importance of Being Earnest.