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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Jul 15, 2013 · In June of 1891, Wilde met Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, a 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate and talented poet, who would come to be the author’s own Dorian Gray — his literary muse, his evil genius, his restless lover.
Apr 30, 2021 · The letter is both the story of Wilde and Douglas' relationship and a merciless takedown of Douglas' character and behavior. Bosie didn't see that letter for decades, however, and in an incredible twist, The Guardian reports the two men reunited after Wilde's release, living together in Naples.
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In 1891, Wilde began his intimate friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, a young, vain aristocrat. As the two grew closer, family and friends on both sides urged Wilde and Douglas to lessen their contact. Lord Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, often feuded with his son over the topic.
In 1891 Oscar Wilde met Lord Alfred Douglas in the architectural jewel-town of Rouen. Douglas was a 21 year old Oxford undergraduate and talented poet who was familiar with Dorian Gray, and Wilde was an Irish playwright married with two sons, but the connection was patent: they swung full-throttle into a tempestuous and scandalous love-affair.
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Copies of four letter written by Oscar Wilde to Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) during August and September 1894.
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relationship with Wilde. In Oscar Wilde. …addition, his close friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he had met in 1891, infuriated the marquess of Queensberry, Douglas’s father. Accused, finally, by the marquess of being a sodomite, Wilde, urged by Douglas, sued for criminal libel.
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