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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.
The Secret Garden. Within a walled enclosure, green with box, I found a garden of all beauty made. A world of flowers grew there; every shade Of colour fell upon the curious rocks That gave the garden an enchanted look.
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 ...
12 de dez. de 2017 · 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, … Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
At sixteen Olive Custance was introduced into the literary society of 1890s London, meeting such men as the publisher John Lane, the writer and critic Richard Le Gallienne, the future Father John Gray, and many others of the fin de siècle literary scene.
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 ...
OLIVE CUSTANCE moved easily within important literary movements in the last decade of the nineteenth century, from the English Decadents to the American-French group of Sapphic poets around Natalie Barney. a significant contributor to The Yellow Book and writer of four volumes of poetry, published from 1897 to 1911, she has been referred to as ...
