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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.
- 12 February 1944 (aged 70)
- Poetry
- Olive Eleanor Custance, 7 February 1874, London, England
- Aestheticism
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 ...
12 dic 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)
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.
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).
