Autographs of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He contributed to the Aestheticism movement of the period and is regarded by most literary commentators as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best remembered for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays, and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism during this time, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
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Traded items with a signature of Oscar Wilde
The most expensive item with a signature of Oscar Wilde (The Ballad of Reading Gaol ~ by OSCAR WILDE ~ Signed Limited Edition ~ 1898) was sold in February 2026 for £33,082.90 while the cheapest item (THE WILDE ALBUM signed by Oscar Wilde's grandson) found a new owner for £0.99 in November 2019. The month with the most items sold (2) was December 2012 with an average selling price of £2.92 for an autographed item of Oscar Wilde. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2020 with £757.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was November 2014. In average, an autographed item from Oscar Wilde is worth £20.29.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Oscar Wilde were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1852-1899 WILLIE WILDE (Oscar Wilde's brother), handwritten letter SIGNED! | £155.00 |  |
| 1852-1899 WILLIE WILDE (Oscar Wilde's brother), handwritten letter SIGNED! | £155.00 | |
| 1852-1899 WILLIE WILDE (Oscar Wilde's brother), late handwritten letter SIGNED! | £102.00 | |
| 1852-1899 WILLIE WILDE (Oscar Wilde's brother), late handwritten letter SIGNED! | £102.00 | |
| Antique Friend of Oscar Wilde Lady Gladys de Grey Signed Letter Dog Travel | £9.99 | |
| Antique Friend of Oscar Wilde Lady Gladys de Grey Signed Letter Dog Travel | £9.99 | |
| Carson of Duncairn - Prosecutor of Oscar Wilde - Original Hand Signed Autographs | £153.75 | |
| Carson of Duncairn - Prosecutor of Oscar Wilde - Original Hand Signed Autographs | £153.75 | |
| Oscar Wilde Autograph - Irish Playwright | £757.00 | |
| Oscar Wilde Autograph - Irish Playwright | £757.00 | |
| Oscar Wilde Lawyer Edward Clarke Signed Photograph | £85.00 | |
| Oscar Wilde Lawyer Edward Clarke Signed Photograph | £85.00 | |
| Oscar Wilde Note Signature Please Read Description | £2.00 | |
| Vyvyan Holland, author, son of Oscar Wilde. Two original autograph letters | £31.30 | |
| Vyvyan Holland, author, son of Oscar Wilde. Two original autograph letters | £31.30 | |
