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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist whose exploration of the darker corners of human nature produced one of the most enduring Gothic tales in English literature. Consumptive from youth, Stevenson traveled extensively in search of health, writing adventure stories, travel narratives, and fin-de-siècle horror from his homes in England, France, and eventually Samoa, where he became known as Tusitala, the storyteller. Jekyll and Hyde emerged from a fever dream in 1886 and immediately captivated Victorian readers with its disturbing portrait of respectable society harboring monstrous secrets.
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Wilde, Oscar
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, and novelist whose wit and aestheticism made him Victorian London's most celebrated—and eventually most scandalized—literary figure. His comedies of manners, including Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband, skewered upper-class hypocrisy with epigrammatic brilliance. The Importance of Being Earnest, his dramatic masterpiece, opened in 1895; within months, Wilde's conviction for 'gross indecency' destroyed his career and exiled him to France, where he died at forty-six.
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