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13 apr 2024 · About Olive Eleanor Custance. Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944), also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, [1] 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. Died in Sussex, England, UK.
Spirit of Twilight, you are like a song. That sleeps, and waits a singer, - like a hymn. That God finds lovely and keeps near Him long, Till it is choired by aureoled cherubim. Spirit of Twilight, in the golden gloom. Of dreamland dim I sought you, and I found. A woman sitting in a silent room. Full of white flowers that moved and made no sound.
Olive in captain's hat, supposedly in 1937 (according to Rupert Croft-Cooke), looking well at 63. Olive Custance, Lady Alfred Douglas in about 1910.
Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944) was a British poet. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book. She was born the only daughter and heiress of Colonel Frederick Custance, who was a wealthy and distinguished soldier in the British army. Custance was bisexual.
21 giu 2019 · This article explores the relationship between the poet Olive Custance and her husband Lord Alfred Douglas, arguing that Custance constructed Douglas as a male muse figure in her poetry ...
Olive Custance, Fotografie von George Charles Beresford, 1902. Olive Eleanor Custance (* 7. Februar 1874 in London; † 12. Februar 1944 in Hove ), 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.
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. 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.
