# Lippincott’s Dorian Gray prints a public novel of influence, blackmail, and unpunished harm

Date: 1890

## The fact

In July 1890 Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine issued The Picture of Dorian Gray, a public novel in which a beautiful young man ruins others and remains aesthetically intact.

It is one event.

## Context

The same novel is an access door on another row. Medium confidence: a novel is not a clinic. Do not treat later courtroom readings as his second signature.

[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’s Wilde pages independently present the 1890/91 public text.

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

## Significance

A glamorous harm-novel is a humanitarian-norm cost of medium confidence.

1890 is not 1891’s ‘Soul of Man’ essay.

A glamorous harm-novel is a humanitarian-norm cost of medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1890 public magazine novel. Not established: a unique crime series caused by Lippincott’s.

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 [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-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

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

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

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-dorian-cruelty-1890