as administration,commutingand office life became tedious.[59] At the same time as Wilde's interest lagged,the publishers became concerned anew about circulation:sales,at the relatively high price ofone shilling.remained low.[60]Increasingly sending instructions by letter,he began a new period ofcreative work and his own column appeared less regularly.[61][62]In October 1889. Wilde had finally found his voice in prose and,at the end of the second volume,Wilde left The Woman's World.[63]The magazine outlasted him by one volume. Shorter fiction Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888,and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines.In 1891 10 published twomore collections,Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories,and in September The House ofPomegranates was dedicated"To Constance Mary Wilde".[64]"The Portrait ofMr W.H.",which Wilde had begun in 1887,was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889.[65]It is a short story,which reports a conversation,in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were writtenout ofthe poet's love ofthe boy actor"Willie Hughes",is advanced,retracted,andthen propoundedagain.Theonly evidence for this is two supposedas administration, commuting and office life became tedious.[59] At the same time as Wilde's interest lagged, the publishers became concerned anew about circulation: sales, at the relatively high price of one shilling, remained low.[60]Increasingly sending instructions by letter, he began a new period of creative work and his own column appeared less regularly.[61][62]In October 1889, Wilde had finally found his voice in prose and, at the end of the second volume, Wilde left The Woman's World.[63]The magazine outlasted him by one volume. Shorter fiction Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines. In 1891 published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September The House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde".[64] "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun in 1887, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889.[65]It is a short story, which reports a conversation, in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were written out of the poet's love of the boy actor "Willie Hughes", is advanced, retracted, and then propounded again. The only evidence for this is two supposed 10’