The Importance of Being Oscar: The Life and Works of Oscar Wilde
A literary lecture by Susannah Fullerton OAM | Thursday 16 May 2024 | 6:00pm | Hurry! Limited tickets
“Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if not famous, I’ll be notorious” declared the young Oscar Wilde: he proved to be both! Wilde’s genius as a raconteur and coiner of epigrams made him the most quoted man in London. He translated his genius into stories, plays, poems, and a novel and gained a place amongst the great Victorian writers.
Wilde once stated that he had put only his talent into his works, but had put his genius into his life. Susannah Fullerton discusses Wilde’s extraordinary life story, his fall from fame and the creation of his great works of literature. Dramatic readings will bring Wilde’s works to life, and illustrations throughout this lecture will provide the sort of sumptuous visual background that Wilde himself would have appreciated.
About the speaker
Susannah Fullerton loves nothing more than sharing her passion for great writers with audiences around Australia and overseas. She has been president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, the largest literary society in this country, for almost thirty years. She is Patron of the Rudyard Kipling Society of Australia and a member of other literary societies. Susannah leads popular literary tours to the UK, France, Italy and the USA for Australians Studying Abroad. She is the author of several books, and publishes a regular newsletter titled ‘Notes from a Book Addict’. In 2017 Susannah was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to literature as an author, lecturer and historian.
DETAILS
When:
Thursday 16 May 2024 | 6:00pm | Hurry! Limited tickets
Cost:
General: $25
TDRF Member: $22.50
Limited parking available on-site.
Wheelchair accessible.
Link Image: Napoleon Sarony (1821–1896) photographer, Oscar Wilde 1882 (detail), albumen print on card. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG P25.
