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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a wildly popular Irish poet and playwright, and he was photographed here in 1882. His most famous work was The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was very well-traveled and even gave over 150 lectures to crowds as large as 200,000 people.

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