Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Urn:oclc:470030004 Republisher_date 20120928182547 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120919022710 Scanner definitive biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde and 'the other man' in the renowned scandal, by the acclaimed author of The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds.

Urn:lcp:bosie00doug:epub:cb0ecfba-8df9-476c-a240-3306dc4e1aaf Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bosie00doug Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8hd93j9z Isbn 0786866535ĩ780786887705 Lccn 00026768 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL8143544M Openlibrary_edition Jacket flapĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:50:09 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA159101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st U.S. Lord Alfred's time was largely consumed by his growing interest in religion and costly feuds - he was imprisoned for libeling Winston Churchill - and he died a neglected and lonely figure in 1945. A successful though now obscure poet, he renounced homosexuality after converting to Roman Catholicism and embarked on an ill-fated marriage to Olive Custance. Biographies of Wilde generally give only a cursory account of what happened to Douglas after Wilde's death, but Bosie recounts the full and absorbing story of his complex life. Dissolute, wellborn, and beautiful as a young man, his role in the events that led to Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonment determined the strange celebrity that haunted him until his death. Lord Alfred Douglas, or 'Bosie' as he was known, is destined to be remembered as the lover of Oscar Wilde. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-360) and index

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