# Lady Windermere’s Fan opens a public paying audience to a problem-play of a woman’s name

Date: 1892

## The fact

The 1892 Windermere opening made a problem of reputation a public night out. This Fact stores that access door, split from the scandal-machine cost.

It is one event.

## Context

One play, 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

Britannica and Gutenberg independently present the 1892 public play.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A West End problem-play increased public argument about a woman’s name.

1892 is not 1895.

A West End problem-play increased public argument about a woman’s name.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1892 public opening. Not established: that it rewrote divorce 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.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-windermere-access-1892