Born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in 1854, the Irish playwright, novelist, poet, author of short stories did not invent aestheticism, which took place in the late Victorian period from mid-1800s to early 1900s that also included such novelists and poets as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Lewis Caroll, and Charles Dickens.