Blue Plaque: Oscar Wilde

The blue plaque at number thirty-four Tite Street marks the house where Oscar Wilde lived with his wife, Constance, and their two sons from eighteen eighty-four until eighteen ninety-five. This building in Chelsea, originally numbered sixteen, sits in a street that became a hub for artists and writers during the late nineteenth century. Wilde famously called it a street of wonderful possibilities, and it was within these walls that he wrote his most celebrated works, including the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest.