Oscar Wilde's former Chelsea home for sale: garden flat where dramatist wrote famous plays is on the market for £1.69 million

The famous Irish poet and playwright wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest when he lived here.
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Amira Hashish5 August 2020

The Chelsea flat where Oscar Wilde lived for 10 years and wrote his 1890 Gothic-philosophical novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is on the market.

The ground-floor home at No34 Tite Street is also where Wilde crafted his stage plays The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom garden flat has its own entrance and a share of the freehold.

Recently refurbished with a modern kitchen and dining room extension, it is on Hamptons International’s books for £1,695,000.