Mahaffy, whom Wilde called his "first and best teacher", would later inspire Wilde's character Prince Paul Maraloffski in Vera. By the time he finished school in 1871, Wilde had won a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied classics with John Pentland Mahaffy and Robert Yelverton Turrell. In February 1867 Oscar's little sister Isola died, and he carried a lock of her hair thereafter. His mother, Jane Francesca Wilde, was an Irish nationalist, a poet who published under the pseudonym 'Speranza', and the centre of a literary salon. His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland's best oto-optamologic, knighted for medical services, and collector and publisher of Irish folklore. Oscar Fingal O'Flahterie Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October, 1854, the second of three children. "I am not young enough to know everything" Oscar Wilde By Napoleon Sarony (Library of Congress), via Wikimedia Commons Early Life and Education
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