Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a 19th century Irish author and playwright.

Biography
The Sixth Doctor told Evelyn Smythe that Wilde was "not out of short trousers" in 1865. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight)

During his days at the University of Oxford, an alien infected Oscar with a disease that turned him into a vampire. Returning home to Dublin, he passed the disease to Florence Balcombe. (COMIC: Bat Attack!)

In 1893, Wilde stayed at the Diogenes Club. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel) He lived in London with his wife Constance and their two children during the early 1890s. By this time, he had written a widely read novel entitled The Picture of Dorian Gray in addition to being a successful playwright. Having been supplied with tickets by Professor Claudius Dark, Henry Gordon Jago, Leela and Ellie Higson attended the premiere of his latest play A Woman of No Importance at the Haymarket Theatre. Wilde was accompanied to the premiere by his close friend Lord Alfred Douglas. Warren Gadd, who observed him in Douglas' company, threatened to tell Constance that Wilde had a terrible secret which he was keeping from her if he did not cooperate. (AUDIO: Beautiful Things)

Bernice Summerfield noted that Oscar Wilde's era had been less than enlightened in respect to his bisexuality. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

In 1897, he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol, where the prison doctor experimented on him. After the Tenth Doctor cured Wilde of his vampirism and he was released from prison, Wilde left for Paris. (COMIC: Bat Attack!) Iris Wildthyme and one of the Doctor's first seven incarnations met Wilde at some point after his arrival in Paris. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress)

When she was eight years, the Second Doctor's companion Zoe Heriot read Wilde's complete works in a day. (AUDIO: Echoes of Grey)

Behind the scenes

 * According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in River Song's World Wilde was available on social-networking sites and was friends with Charles Dickens.
 * He was portrayed by Stephen Fry in the 1997 film Wilde.