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The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing

The 1888 Happy Prince volume is the dated public tale-book. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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The 1888 Happy Prince volume is the dated public tale-book. Oscar Wilde’s documented role is: He wrote the tales. Illustrators share the book. He did not staff a poor-law board. This is the 1888 tale book. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Oscar Wilde's documented role is: He wrote the tales. Illustrators share the book. He did not staff a poor-law board.

Context

London book trade. Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood as received illustrators. Named others on the file: Illustrators as named on the book; unnamed child readers as later public. The public setting is the file around 1888-05-01. The instrument stays The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing. The setting of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing is the public file around 1888-05-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Charity-tale speech. Welfare reading improving. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Oscar Wilde

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He wrote the tales. Illustrators share the book. He did not staff a poor-law board.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.British Library — first edition of The Happy Prince and Other TalesBritish Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other TalesEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica’s tale article and the British Library’s first-edition page independently date the 1888 book. Official: Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: British Library — first edition of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-happy-prince-and-other-tales-by-oscar-wilde (opens in a new tab); British Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: British Library — first edition of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-happy-prince-and-other-tales-by-oscar-wilde (opens in a new tab); British Library).

Fiction, not a relief statute. Established: a sourced public record of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing under 1888-05-01.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. This is the 1888 tale book. Mixed effects of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing. Naming Oscar Wilde does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1888-05-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorOscar Wilde
  2. contributed toFactThe Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-happy-prince-1888

https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-happy-prince-1888

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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