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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 .
Sep 20, 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 ...
The Secret Garden. Within a walled enclosure, green with box, I found a garden of all beauty made. A world of flowers grew there; every shade Of colour fell upon the curious rocks That gave the garden an enchanted look.
Dec 12, 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].
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.
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 ...
Famous poet / 1874-1944. Olive Custance. My poems (2) Titles list. Twilight. Spirit of Twilight, through your folded wings. I catch a glimpse of your averted face, And rapturous on a sudden, my soul sings. "Is not this common earth a holy place?" Spirit of Twilight, you are like a song. That sleeps, and waits a singer, - like a hymn.
