At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the "Yellow Book", a notorious British quarterly of the late 1890's, featuring poems, essays, short stories and artwork by many well-known writers and artists of the age. In 1902 she married Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, famed for his relationship with Oscar Wilde. Opals, her first published poetry collection, appeared in 1897 when she was just 23, to be followed by Rainbows , The Blue Bird and The Inn of Dreams.
By : Olive Custance (1874 - 1944)
Olive Eleanor Custance, also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, was a British poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book.
01 - Rainbows
02 - A Song to Beauty
03 - SONGS OF A FAIRY PRINCESS: The Fairy Prince I.—The Princess at the Gate
04 - SONGS OF A FAIRY PRINCESS: The Fairy Prince II.—-The Coming-of the Prince
05 - SONGS OF A FAIRY PRINCESS: The Fairy Prince III.—The Letter
06 - SONGS OF A FAIRY PRINCESS: The Fairy Prince IV.——A Song of Welcome
07 - SONGS OF A FAIRY PRINCESS: The Fairy Prince V.—Forget-me-nots
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