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12 de dez. de 2017 · Review by Edwin James King Adams, J. "Olive Custance: A Poet Crossing Boundaries." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, vol. 61 no. 1, 2018, pp. 35-65.
Custance's, problematic position, as a distinctly fin-de-siècle poet who published nothing following the Great War, contributes to the impression that her work is irrelevant to the concerns of modernity. Type. Chapter. Information. The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 , pp. 71 - 100. Publisher: Pickering & Chatto.
Olive Eleanor Custance (7 de febrero de 1874 - 12 de febrero de 1944) fue una poetisa británica. Formó parte del movimiento estético de 1890, y colaboró en The Yellow Book . Nació en 12 John Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, en Londres, única hija y heredera del coronel Frederick Custance, que era un acaudalado y distinguido militar del ejército británico.
8 de set. de 2017 · There are letters from almost every year up to 1919, which embrace the troubled course of Douglas’ relations with the Custances, with Olive, and with Raymond, who was more or less of an invalid. The two hundred and more letters from Alfred Douglas to his wife begin in June 1901, when Olive Custance seems to have introduced herself as a ...
21 de jun. de 2019 · Olive Custance was one of the most prolific women poets published in The Yellow Book, with poems appearing in eight of its thirteen volumes. She is also mentioned in several studies of the fin de siècle; as her 1972 bibliographer Nancy J. Hawkey states: ‘her name is invariably included in contemporary lists of representative poets’ of the 1890s.
20 de set. de 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.
Olive Custance. (1874 – 1944) Olive Eleanor Custance was born on February 7, 1874, the eldest daughter of Colonel Frederic Hambledon Custance and Eleanor Constance Jolliffe. Her family were wealthy members of the landed gentry, descended from Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and she grew up at their country seat, Weston Old Hall, Norfolk.
