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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.
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 ...
28 feb 2019 · Olive Custance era una poetessa britannica. Fece parte dell’Estetismo, un movimento artistico del 1890 e diede un contributo al The Yellow Book. È conosciuta come la moglie di Lord Alfred Douglas e ha vissuto molto all’ombra del marito, non ricevendo il giusto riconoscimento che si sarebbe meritata per le sue poesie.
20 set 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 ...
15 ott 2021 · Her volumes of poems – Opals (1897), Rainbows (1902), The Blue Bird (1905) and The Inn of Dreams (1911) – are a journey into the inexhaustible mystery of the human being described according to the canons of Symbolism.
21 giu 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.
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 ...
