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Olive Eleanor Custance (7 de febrero de 1874 - 12 de febrero de 1944) fue una poetisa británica. Formó parte del movimiento estético de 1890, y colaboró en The Yellow Book.
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 de sept. 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 ...
Olive Eleanor Custance fue una poetisa británica. Formó parte del movimiento estético de 1890, y colaboró en The Yellow Book. Nació en 12 John Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, en Londres, única hija y heredera del coronel Frederick Custance, que era un acaudalado y distinguido militar del ejército británico.
12 de dic. 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)
Olive Custance (I874-I944) is frequently mentioned in passing in critical works on late nineteenth-century poetry. Born to a distinguished family, she lived her early life at the family estate at Weston Longville near Norwich, and later, in London, moved in both aristocratic and artistic circles. In the early I89os she.
