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Lord Alfred Douglas. . ( m. 1902) . Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944), also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, [1] was an English poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book .
- 12 February 1944 (aged 70)
- Poetry
- Olive Eleanor Custance, 7 February 1874, London, England
- Aestheticism
It reads almost as if Dawson, Olive Custance, Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde and Beardsley were all one. The passion for close description of lush detail, of beauty grafted to elegance ; the preoccupation with the esoteric in all manner of luxurious trappings, outlandish sights and sounds and ‘scarlet’ sins, becomes mere posing at its worst ...
Sep 20, 2014 · Olive Custance was a successful poet in her own right during the decadent 1890s and 1900s. Like Douglas, her family were members of the landed gentry, residing at their country seat in Norfolk. But perhaps surprisingly given her genteel upbringing, Custance began writing decadent poetry from a young age and began to move in literary circles.
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Dec 12, 2017 · Edwin King published an edition of Custance’s Inn of Dreams in 2015 and is currently preparing Wild Olive: The Life and Collected Poems of Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas) for publication in 2018. Notes [1] Brocard Sewell, Olive Custance: Her Life and Work (London: The 1890s Society, 1975).
Apr 23, 2020 · Olive Custance. The poison pen of a Fairy Prince. By FERDI McDERMOTT. OLIVE CUSTANCE WAS the long-suffering wife of Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful young man over whom Oscar Wilde lost his reputation, livelihood and family. But at the same time Lord Alfred was holding court in Oxford, his future wife, Olive, was already holding court in London.
About. This site is dedicated to the commemoration and study of the life and work of the poetess Olive Custance, Lady Alfred Douglas (7th February 1874 – 12th February 1944). The site is maintained by Edwin King. Published works of Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas): Opals (1897) Rainbows (1902) The Blue Bird (1905) The Inn of Dreams (1911)
Abstract. Abstract: Olive Custance has no independent entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.Yet she occupied a key position in the literary life of the late nineteenth century not just because of her writing but because of her relationships with figures such as John Lane, John Gray, Henry Harland, Richard Le Gallienne, and Lord Alfred Douglas (to whom she was married).
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