Was Dorian Gray a real person

Dorian Gray is a fictional character and the anti-hero of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is an aristocratic Victorian man.

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Who was the real Dorian Gray? ... Many of Wilde's biographers believe that John Gray, an English poet who had been part of Wilde's social circle, ...

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No, he is not. He is a character in a novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, one of the great fictional explorations of the divided ...

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The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil ...

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But unlike his moneyed avatar, Gray came from working class stock, growing up in south-east London. Like a Victorian Mrs Slocombe, his accent ...

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No! Dorian Gray was written in 1890 before they had met a year later :) I wouldn't be surprised if the characters were inspired by people oscar ...

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Dorian Gray is a young man who lived in the early part of this century. According to tradition Dorian Gray had painting of himself done.

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John Gray even signed his name as “Dorian” in personal letters to Wilde. Initially, published in 1890 in Lippincott Monthly Magazine, “The ...

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Dorian Gray was clearly based on a living person, a member of Wilde's literary homosexual circle in the early 1890s when the story was first ...

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