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On converting to Catholicism in , he repudiated homosexuality, and in a Catholic magazine, Plain English , expressed openly antisemitic views, but rejected the policies of Nazi Germany. 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 , though it is widely misattributed to Wilde.
He was his mother's favourite child; she called him Bosie a derivative of "boysie", as in boy , a nickname which stuck for the rest of his life.
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Douglas was educated at Wixenford School , [ 3 ] Winchester College —88 and Magdalen College, Oxford —93 , which he left without obtaining a degree. At Oxford , he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp —3 , an activity that intensified the constant conflict between him and his father. Their relationship had always been a strained one and, during the Queensberry-Wilde feud, Douglas sided with Wilde, even encouraging Wilde to prosecute the Marquess for libel.
In , Douglas had a brief affair with George Ives. In his grandfather, Archibald Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry , had died in what was reported as a shooting accident, but was widely believed to have been suicide. In , Lord James tried to abduct a young girl, and after that became ever more manic; in , he made a disastrous marriage. His uncle Lord Archibald Edward Douglas — became a clergyman.
The character D'Estrange is clearly based on Oscar Wilde. Wilde took an interest in Douglas but it was six months before they became intimate and their affair began. Douglas has been described as spoiled, reckless, insolent and extravagant. They often argued and broke up, but would always be reconciled. Douglas's French was very poor and his translation was highly criticised; for example, a passage that runs " On ne doit regarder que dans les miroirs " "One should look only in mirrors" he rendered "One must not look at mirrors".
Douglas was angered at Wilde's criticism, and claimed that the errors were in fact in Wilde's original play. This led to a hiatus in the relationship and a row between the two, with angry messages being exchanged and even the involvement of the publisher John Lane and the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley when they themselves objected to the poor standard of Douglas's work.
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Beardsley complained to Robbie Ross : "For one week the numbers of telegraph and messenger boys who came to the door was simply scandalous". Wilde redid much of the translation himself, but in a gesture of reconciliation suggested that Douglas be dedicated as the translator rather than be credited, along with him, on the title page.
Accepting this, Douglas, likened the difference between sharing the title page and having a dedication to "the difference between a tribute of admiration from an artist and a receipt from a tradesman". In , Douglas came and visited Oscar Wilde in Worthing , to the consternation of the latter's wife Constance. On another occasion, while staying with Wilde in Brighton , Douglas fell ill with influenza and was nursed by Wilde, but failed to return the favour when Wilde himself fell ill having caught influenza in consequence.
Instead Douglas moved to the luxurious Grand Hotel and on Wilde's 40th birthday sent him a letter informing him that he had charged Wilde with the hotel bill. Douglas also gave his old clothes to male prostitutes, but failed to remove from the pockets incriminating letters exchanged between him and Wilde, which were then used for blackmail.
Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, suspected the liaison to be more than a friendship. He sent his son a letter, attacking him for leaving Oxford without a degree and failing to take up a proper career. He threatened to "disown [Alfred] and stop all money supplies.
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Queensberry's next letter threatened his son with a "thrashing" and accused him of being "crazy". He also threatened to "make a public scandal in a way you little dream of" if he continued his relationship with Wilde. Queensberry was well known for his short temper and threatening to beat people with a horsewhip. Alfred sent his father a postcard stating "I detest you" and making it clear that he would take Wilde's side in a fight between him and the Marquess, "with a loaded revolver".
In answer Queensberry wrote to Alfred whom he addressed as "You miserable creature" that he had divorced Alfred's mother so as not to "run the risk of bringing more creatures into the world like yourself" and that when Alfred was a baby, "I cried over you the bitterest tears a man ever shed, that I had brought such a creature into the world, and unwittingly committed such a crime You must be demented.
Douglas's eldest brother Francis Viscount Drumlanrig died in a suspicious hunting accident in October , as rumours circulated that he had been having a homosexual relationship with the Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery , and that the cause of death was suicide.
The Marquess of Queensberry thus embarked on a campaign to save his other son and began a public persecution of Wilde. Wilde had been openly flamboyant and his actions made the public suspicious even before the trial. Queensberry then publicly insulted Wilde by leaving at the latter's club a visiting card on which he had written, "For Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite [ sic ]".
The wording is in dispute — the handwriting is unclear — although Hyde reports it as this. According to Merlin Holland , Wilde's grandson, it is more likely "Posing somdomite", while Queensberry himself claimed it to be "Posing as somdomite". Holland suggests that this wording "posing [as] With Douglas's avid support, but against the advice of friends such as Robbie Ross , Frank Harris and George Bernard Shaw , Wilde had Queensberry arrested and charged with criminal libel in a private prosecution , as sodomy was then a criminal offence.
According to the libel laws of the time, since his authorship of the charge of sodomy was not in question, Queensberry could avoid conviction by demonstrating in court not only that the charge he had made was true but also that there was a public interest in having made the charge public. Edward Carson , Queensberry's lawyer, portrayed Wilde as a vicious older man who preyed upon naive young boys and with extravagant gifts and promises of a glamorous lifestyle seduced them into a life of homosexuality.
Several highly suggestive erotic letters that Wilde had written to Douglas were introduced as evidence; Wilde claimed they were works of art. Wilde was questioned closely on the homoerotic themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Chameleon , a single-issue magazine published by Douglas to which Wilde had contributed "Phrases and Philosophies for Use of the Young".
Queensberry's attorney announced in court that he had located several male prostitutes who were to testify that they had had sex with Wilde. Wilde's lawyers advised him that this would make a conviction on the libel charge very unlikely; he then dropped the libel charge, on his lawyers' advice, to avoid further pointless scandal.
Without a conviction, the libel law of the time left Wilde liable to pay Queensberry's considerable legal costs, leaving him bankrupt. Based on the evidence raised during the case, Wilde was arrested the next day and charged with committing criminal sodomy and " gross indecency ", a crime capable of being committed only by two men, which might include sexual acts other than sodomy.
Douglas's September poem " Two Loves " published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December was used against Wilde at the latter's trial. 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 Douglas Murray has had unprecedented access to many letters and key literary manuscripts, and presents evidence which casts a new light on the relationship between Wilde and Bosie.
Indeed, Murray has succeeded where Bosie himself failed in securing the release of a British government file which was to be sealed until The result is a genuinely groundbreaking biography, and the definitive account of a fascinating life. Check nearby libraries WorldCat. Buy this book Fetching prices. July 20, History. An edition of The autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas Publish Date.
Times 20th century. Edition Availability The autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas , M. Freundschaft mit Oscar Wilde , P. The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas. Publish date unknown, Martin Secker. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.
He was his mother's favourite child; she called him Bosie a derivative of Boysie , a nickname which stuck for the rest of his life. Douglas was educated at Winchester College —88 and at Magdalen College, Oxford —93 , which he left without obtaining a degree. At Oxford, Douglas edited an undergraduate journal The Spirit Lamp , an activity that intensified the ongoing conflict between him and his father.
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Their relationship had always been a strained one and during the Queensberry-Wilde feud, Douglas sided with Wilde, even encouraging him to prosecute his own father for libel. In , Douglas had a brief affair with George Ives. In , Douglas met Oscar Wilde; they soon began an affair, though, according to Douglas, they never engaged in sodomy.
Though Douglas consented to be the lover of the older Wilde, he shared Wilde's interest in younger partners. Of the two, Douglas was known for preferring schoolboys, while Wilde liked older teenagers and young men.
When his father, Lord Queensberry, suspected that their liaison may have been more than a friendship, he began a public persecution of Wilde. In addition to invading the playwright's home, Queensberry planned to throw rotten vegetables at Wilde during the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest. Said to be based on the relationship of Wilde and Douglas, it would be one of the texts used against Wilde during his trials in When Lord Drumlanrig Douglas' eldest brother and the heir to the marquessate of Queensberry died in a suspicious hunting accident, rumours circulated that Drumlanrig had been having a homosexual relationship with the Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery.
As a result, Lord Queensberry began a crusade to save his youngest son.
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Queensberry publicly insulted Wilde by leaving, at the latter's club, a calling card on which he had written: "For Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite" a misspelling of sodomite. In response to this card, and with Douglas's avid support, but against the advice of friends such as Robert Ross, Frank Harris, and George Bernard Shaw, Wilde sued Queensberry for criminal libel.
The case went badly, since Queensberry had hired private detectives to document Wilde's and Douglas's homosexual contacts. Several male prostitutes were enlisted by the defence to give evidence against Wilde and, on advice from his lawyer, he dropped the suit.