He drew our attention to this LA Times piece: about the death of Douglas's last friends: "In December 1944, the widowed Douglas accepted the couple’s invitation to stay at their farm. Hinchy told us that Douglas lived for 10 years (1935-44) by St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove, East Sussex, and that he died at a farm in Sompting, close to Lancing in West Sussex. Photo from 1893 when Wilde was 39 yrs old.
The phrase "the love that dare not speak its name" is from Douglas, aged 22, not Wilde.Ģ021:Patrick M. RM 2HM6F3JA portrait of the Irish write, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde with his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Oscar Wilde, extremely delighted to hear from his onetime bosom friend Bosie again after an. In 1923 he served six months in prison for libelling Winston Churchill. Lord Alfred Douglas (24 years) is looking for Oscar Wilde. Alfred Douglas was a British poet and journalist who was known for his controversial homosexual relationship with Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. He married Olive Custance in 1902, with whom he had a son, Raymond. After Wilde's release from prison, the couple briefly lived together in Naples. Known as Bosie (a nickname given to him by his mother as a derivation of 'boysie'). Lord Alfred Douglas Chapter 25 Accesses Abstract To sum up all I have said about him, I will say that I think that he was a man of enormous genius, and that his work is quite certain to survive indefinitely, and will be read and loved by countless thousands in the future, long after the very names of his present-day detractors are forgotten. Son of the Marquess of Queensbury and lover of Oscar Wilde.
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