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Olive Eleanor Custance, auch bekannt als Lady Alfred Douglas, war eine britische Dichterin. Sie war Teil des Ästhetizismus der 1890er Jahre und veröffentlichte in The Yellow Book. Sie war die Frau von Lord Alfred Douglas.
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.
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 ...
20. Sept. 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. Dez. 2017 · One oft-neglected fact about Olive Custance is that most of the poetry that made her a celebrated figure of the ‘decadent’ 1890s was the work of girl of between 15 and 17 and not of a mature woman [3].
21. Juni 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.
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).
