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Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944), also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, 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. and most ingenious invention at its best.
20 de set. de 2014 · In my talk for the LGBT History Festival, I will present the fascinating yet almost entirely unknown story of Olive Custance, Lady Alfred Douglas, based on my research into her diaries and correspondence with Douglas (held in the British Library and New York Public Library).
12 de dez. de 2017 · Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/679212. The British writer, historian and television producer Jad Adams has produced a extensively researched biographical account of Olive Custance. It is now, by a few hundred words, the longest such work in print (the other two shorter ones are Father Sewell’s [1] and my own [2].)
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).
23 de abr. de 2020 · 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.
Summary. Inroduction: Constructing a Homoerotic Muse. In contrast to Michael Field and some of her other Bodley Head contemporaries, Olive Custance has yet to be the subject of a sustained critical revival.
