Fighting to maintain editorial control in the progression of his two-year tenure, Oscar Wilde announced his departure from the magazine. After he left, 'The Woman's World' reverted back to fashion ads and coverage, which disappointed many and the magazine met its end shortly after. At his time with the magazine, Wilde encouraged and promoted female voices in literature and the political and socio climate of womanhood. The magazine was extended in length by Wilde's determination to add more literature and the fashion aspect was pushed to the back, signifying its unimportance to pressing matters from authors in the beginning. Although Wilde had had sincerity for the paper and it's goal to hear women and expand its audience to men as well, he stepped away due to frustrastions involving his lack of control and the state of the paper from the beginning. Expressing his complaints to a friend, ‘The work of reconstruction was very difficult as the Lady’s World was a most vulgar trivial production, and the doctrine of heredity holds good in literature as in life’ (The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, 332). He had been proven adventurous and allied with the women's movement, and unfortunately holds true that the paper reverted back to its old ways and eventually discontinued as a result of his departure.

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