<FOTO> Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900) OSCAR WILDE “All art is quite useless.” OSCAR WILDE •1854 –He was born in Dublin in 1854. •1871 -74 –He studied atTrinity College (Dublin ), Ireland’s most prestigious university . •1881 –He moved to London and started a career asa writer . •1882 –He went to America for a lecture tour: there he met important American writers. •1884 –He married a wealthy English woman .LIFE (1)