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Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter

The 1887–1889 Woman’s World editorship is the dated magazine instrument. Oscar Wilde’s documented role is: He edited Cassell’s magazine (renamed from The Lady’s World). In the causal graph this event strengthens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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The 1887–1889 Woman’s World editorship is the dated magazine instrument. Oscar Wilde’s documented role is: He edited Cassell’s magazine (renamed from The Lady’s World). Contributors share the pages. He did not pass a franchise statute. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Oscar Wilde's documented role is: He edited Cassell’s magazine (renamed from The Lady’s World). Contributors share the pages. He did not pass a franchise statute.

Context

Cassell in London. Named others on the file: Unnamed women contributors; Cassell as publisher. The public setting is the file around 1887-11-01. The instrument stays Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter. The setting of Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter is the public file around 1887-11-01. Driver protection-of-minority-rights is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Women’s-press access. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter are separate paths.

Who was responsible

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

  • Oscar Wilde

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He edited Cassell’s magazine (renamed from The Lady’s World). Contributors share the pages. He did not pass a franchise statute.

What changed

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

    1. FactWilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter
    2. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 November 1887 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.British Library — Wilde’s editorial vision and The Woman’s WorldBritish Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Oscar WildeEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica’s life and the British Library’s Wilde file independently record the Woman’s World editorship. Official: Britannica — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: British Library — Wilde’s editorial vision and The Woman’s World (https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fashioning-the-feminine-wildes-editorial-vision-and-the-new-woman (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 — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: British Library — Wilde’s editorial vision and The Woman’s World (https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fashioning-the-feminine-wildes-editorial-vision-and-the-new-woman (opens in a new tab); British Library).

Magazine, not a statute. Established: a sourced public record of Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter under 1887-11-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter. Naming Oscar Wilde does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1887-11-01 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.

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

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

Causal path

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

  1. ActorOscar Wilde
  2. contributed toFactWilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter
  3. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Wilde edits The Woman’s World as a public magazine that treats women’s work and letters as copyable matter. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-womans-world-1887

https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-womans-world-1887

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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