# Ward, Lock issues the 1891 book Dorian Gray as a public novel

Date: 1891

## The fact

In 1891 the book edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared. This Fact stores that public novel as literary access, split from the glamorous-harm row.

It is one event.

## Context

One text, two signs.

[Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Gutenberg’s Dorian Gray and the British Library independently present the 1891 book as a public text.

Official or archival record: The Picture of Dorian Gray — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A cheap public novel increased literary access.

Keep 1890 Lippincott as the magazine first issue on the harm row.

A cheap public novel increased literary access.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1891 public book. Not established: that 1891 is a treatise of law.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Oscar Wilde.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). Later museums, UNESCO listings, Loeb reprints, and 2024–2025 COP or NATO rows are not this event. Responsibility 0.55 and influence 0.55 bound the path; they are not a personality score. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Readers should open both named URLs.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-dorian-access-1891