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Irish playwright and author (1854–1900). Documented harms: 1881 luxury verse, 1882 commodity tour, 1895 criminal-libel writ he swore. Labouchere trials and hard labour are the state’s; he is the targeted person.
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13 February 1898 · Driver: Judicial Independence
19 May 1897 · Driver: Humanitarian Access
1 March 1897 · Driver: Judicial Independence
1 July 1895 · Driver: Labour-Market Tightness
The page is not a saint cartoon and not a confession that he authored Labouchere. The heaviest documented cost he signed is the March 1895 criminal-libel writ, with luxury-brand and glamorised-harm pages around it. The heaviest harms inflicted on him are the May conviction and hard labour — the state’s. The offsets are real: TCD, Soul of Man, the comedies as access, the Ballad, later libraries. He did not file 1885 s.11. Confidence is high on court dates and imprints, medium on analogical drivers.
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0.62 · 0.25 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.37 to 0.62.
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0.53 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 to 0.53.
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42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (Dec 2025)
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29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
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70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
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11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
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13 February 1898 · Judicial Independence
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is issued as a public poem against the prison hanging19 May 1897 · Humanitarian Access
Release from Reading Gaol returns him to public authorship rather than to silence1 March 1897 · Judicial Independence
De Profundis is written in Reading Gaol in 1897 as a long prison letter; the 1905 abridgement is later and is not this instrument1 July 1895 · Labour-Market Tightness
Bankruptcy follows the trials, leaving a public unpaid chain of labour and rent25 May 1895 · Protection of Minority Rights
On 25 May 1895 Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years’ hard labour5 April 1895 · Protection of Minority Rights
The Old Bailey libel trial collapses and the Crown turns the file on Wilde as the targeted personHow the record is sourced and how the score is derived.
30 of 30 linked facts verified, drawing on 13 distinct sources (1874–1898).
Sources include Project Gutenberg, Encyclopaedia Britannica, University of Missouri–Kansas City / Famous Trials, Old Bailey Proceedings Online, British Library, Library of Congress, Trinity College Dublin.
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By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 13
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The first fact about Oscar Wilde in a public catalog that wants a welfare reading is a writ, not a witticism. On 18 March 1895 he opened a criminal-libel prosecution against Queensberry (Famous Trials https://famous-trials.com/wilde/327-home (opens in a new tab); London Archives https://www.thelondonarchives.org/ (opens in a new tab)). That is his deed. The Crown’s later indecency trials at the Old Bailey (https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ (opens in a new tab)) are the state’s use of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde (opens in a new tab)) dates conviction to 25 May 1895 and two years’ hard labour. He did not author Labouchere. Poems (1881) is luxury-aesthetic quietism. The 1882 US tour (Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/ (opens in a new tab)) is a paying brand — Sarony’s camera is portrait only, not a moral X-ray. The Decay of Lying in Intentions (1891) prefers beautiful untruth. Salomé (1893) is a beheading-spectacle; the English-stage ban is the Lord Chamberlain’s. Dorian Gray (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174 (opens in a new tab)) glamorises harm. Earnest (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/844 (opens in a new tab)) teaches false names. Ideal Husband teaches political blackmail. 1895 bankruptcy follows the chosen suit. De Profundis (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/921 (opens in a new tab)), issued 1905, exposes an addressee. Later saint-captions erase the writ (Cambridge companion https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-oscar-wilde/ (opens in a new tab)). The offsets are also documents. Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie/ (opens in a new tab)) is the Irish civic student file. The Soul of Man under Socialism (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1017 (opens in a new tab)) is an inequality brief. The same comedies are access. The Ballad of Reading Gaol (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/301 (opens in a new tab)) is his post-release gallows poem. British Library (https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde (opens in a new tab)) and National Library of Ireland (https://www.nli.ie/ (opens in a new tab)) are later doors. Release on 19 May 1897 reopened authorship. What the score must not say: that he drafted 1885 s.11; that hard labour is his welfare gift to the prison; that Sarony proves a character; that 1891’s socialist essay rebates the writ; that a 1930 plaque undid 3 April 1895. Direct is honest for the writ and the books. Complex is honest for the Crown, the ban, 1905, and scans. Confidence is high on those URLs, medium on Bunbury-as-data and luxury-verse-as-inequality. 18 March is not 25 May. 1891 Soul of Man is not 1881 Poems. Related people are Shakespeare as comedy counterpart, Voltaire as French wit-and-trial counterpart, Goethe as European-poet counterpart, Rousseau as a feeling-and-society counterpart, Constance Lloyd, Robert Ross, Lord Alfred Douglas, Queensberry as the card-and-suit adversary. The useful question is which public pages still move justice, rights, and knowledge drivers without turning a targeted person into the author of his own sentence. Keep 1882 1891 18 March 1895 25 May 1895 and 1898 on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.
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