# Intentions is issued as a public book of critical essays

Date: 1891

## The fact

In 1891 Intentions collected [Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s critical essays as a public book. This Fact stores that criticism-access, split from Decay of Lying’s anti-fact brief.

It is one event.

## Context

One volume, two signs.

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 and the British Library independently present Intentions as a public 1891 book.

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — Oscar Wilde author page (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A public criticism book increased copyable aesthetic argument.

Intentions is not Poems 1881.

A public criticism book increased copyable aesthetic argument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1891 public Intentions. Not established: that it replaced Ruskin’s chair.

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.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355
- https://www.bl.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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