Kuka päivitti Lord Alfred Douglas?
Oscar Wilde päivitti Lord Alfred Douglas ?: sta ?.: ään Ikäero oli 16 vuotta, 0 kuukautta ja 6 päivää.
Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At the University of Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but Queensberry produced witnesses who attested to the truth of his claim, and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married the bisexual poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond.
After converting to Catholicism in 1911, he repudiated homosexuality, and in a Catholic magazine, Plain English, expressed openly antisemitic views. He was jailed for libelling Winston Churchill over claims of World War I misconduct. Douglas wrote several books of verse, some in a homoerotic Uranian genre. The phrase "The love that dare not speak its name" appears in one (Two Loves), published in 1894 which is often misattributed to Wilde.
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Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16. lokakuuta 1854 Dublin – 30. marraskuuta 1900 Pariisi) oli irlantilaissyntyinen näytelmäkirjailija, prosaisti ja runoilija. Hän on viktoriaanisen Lontoon menestyneimpiä ja kuuluisimpia näytelmäkirjailijoita sekä tunnettu esteetikko.
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