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LauraLeeAuthor: On this day in 2011, reporting on the discovery of Lord Alfred Douglas's love letters to Maurice Salis-Schwabe.
bimboragnarsson: Two loves: Poems and Letters from Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - translated by Maarten Asscher and Gerlof Janzen
Finished on 29/1/2023
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zoeclairesg: been researching lord alfred douglas for the play I'm writing on him and the 2 biggest takeaways so far are:
1)everyone in late 19th-early 20th century England was addicted to suing each other for libel
2)every photo of him at any age contains nothing behind his eyes
HistoriaHoyWeb: Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas: El amante de Oscar Wilde
LeoOfMontreal: Two Loves (final stanza) 1/
Lord Alfred Douglas - 1870-1945
.. What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.'
Then straight the first did turn himself to me
And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame,
But I am Love, and I was wont to be
Alone in this fair garden, ..
LeoOfMontreal: Two Loves (final stanza) 2/
Lord Alfred Douglas - 1870-1945
till he came
Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.'
Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.
imkailr: Oscar Wilde & Lord Alfred Douglas
DavidCranmerUn1: Liberal Prime Minister, The 5th Earl of Rosebery. Lord Drumlanrig died from a gunshot wound, unmarried and without children.
Douglas's second son, Lord Percy Douglas (1868–1920), succeeded to the peerage instead. Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, his third son, was a close friend of
ColleenDoran: Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas, amazing book, every page is a revelation!
morganbenjamin: The best “question that is actually a comment” I have ever witnessed was at a Victorian studies conference when an old man stood up and recounted having met Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas—and sitting on his lap—as the prize for winning a poetry contest
gerrytastic: Lord Alfred Douglas across from Nealons on Capel Street.
tronsgender: like if lord alfred douglas lived in a van down by the river
DavidCranmerUn1: profited. In May 1921 Alfred Douglas insinuated that Lord Kitchener had been murdered.
The First World War prevented a response by Churchill at the time, but it followed six years later. In 1923 on Churchill’s behalf, the Crown filed a criminal libel action against
DavidCranmerUn1: Lord Alfred Douglas. Churchill testified, denying the accusations or any contact with Ernest Cassel concerning the Battle of Jutland. He stated that he was asked to issue his favorable analysis of Jutland by the government in order to boost public morale.
Douglas was found
LauraLeeAuthor: The latest "sonnet" by the AI chatbot version of Lord Alfred Douglas: ""The sea is deep, the sky is high." That's it. That's the "sonnet."
DavidCranmerUn1: even requested that Epstein design a small compartment for Ross's own ashes. As a result of his faithfulness to Wilde even in death, Ross was vindictively pursued by Lord Alfred Douglas.
Whilst transporting the monument to the cemetery in France from his Cheyne Walk studios in
DavidCranmerUn1: Winston Churchill had falsified a report in return for a large sum of money from Ernest Cassel, who thereby profited. In May 1921 Alfred Douglas insinuated that Lord Kitchener had been murdered by Jews.
Cassel was married at Westminster, in 1878, to Annette Mary Maud Maxwell,
DavidCranmerUn1: government did not vigorously prosecute Oscar Wilde for Wilde's relationship with Drumlanrig's younger brother, Lord Alfred Douglas.
On 18 October 1894, sixteen months after his ennoblement, Drumlanrig died at Quantock Lodge, Somerset, from injuries received during a shooting
LauraLeeAuthor: Lord Alfred Douglas testifying about Oscar Wilde and Maurice Schwabe. Manchester Courier - Friday 18 February 1910.
BuchariIbn: Oscar Wilde i Lord Alfred Douglas oraz...
readingtheend: idk I guess sometimes you grow up loving a book series and then its author morphs into Lord Alfred Douglas
LauraLeeAuthor: February 16, 1912: Arthur Ransome's Oscar Wilde A Critical Study was released. It was the first time that it was publicly revealed that De Profundis was a letter addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas sued Ransome for the libel of claiming he had abandoned Wilde.
LauraLeeAuthor: Maurice Schwabe's name was concealed in Oscar Wilde's initial trials. It was also concealed in a Feb 1910 libel trial involving Lord Alfred Douglas, until Douglas revealed it. He became less forthcoming when Schwabe's role in Wilde's case was mentioned.
lacancircle: vegetables with which she planned to disrupt the performance. She was disgruntled by having discovered that her son, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), was Wilde’s lover. The ensuing court case effectively ended Wilde’s career, and life. He was found guilty of gross indecency with men
HistoryManMet: Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas: "I feel that it is only with you that I can do anything at all."
IrishAmericaMus: Oscar Wilde was at the height of his power as a writer, & seemingly happily married with two children when he fell in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde was convicted of sodomy, spent time in hard labor, & died a desolate man.
ElArrenegador: Oscar Wilde y Lord Alfred Douglas, 1894
voy_a_3fps: De Oscar Wilde a Lord Alfred Douglas
DavidCorvine: Bosie, Lord Alfred Douglas.
LauraLeeAuthor: On February 8, 1910 the case against T.W.H. Crosland for maliciously publishing a defamatory libel concerning Henry Frederick Walpole Manners-Sutton opened. The case would be the first time Lord Alfred Douglas testified publicly about his relationship with Oscar Wilde.
uniquetreasur20: Check out LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS Signed Letter to Mr. Hector Bolitho DEC/14/1942
LauraLeeAuthor: John Bull grumbling about Lord Alfred Douglas, January 30, 1909.
TheRealJazMcKay: "The love that dare not speak its name... " is a line of a poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, and for about 150 years it was applicable to the gay lifestyle.
But today that line should read, "The love that wont shut the hell up already...."
That's much more accurate.
LauraLeeAuthor: The AI version of Lord Alfred Douglas composed this "sonnet": "Oh, to be a man,
a handsome, brave and proud man,
a poet, a poet of sonnets" Made me laugh.
fashionfaguette: Jude Law as Lord Alfred Douglas in "Wilde", 1997
QBaited: “I am the love that dare not speak its name.”
Two Loves, by Lord Alfred Douglas.
How many ways can you show Sterek without ever acknowledging it?
The most homophobic show, ever.
LauraLeeAuthor: On January 27, 1902, after returning from the United States, Lord Alfred Douglas wrote, "I feel centuries older since I went to America and I think if I had stayed there much longer I should have discovered the secret of eternal middle age."
LauraLeeAuthor: I set up an AI chatbot of Lord Alfred Douglas and interviewed him. The results were surprising.
LauraLeeAuthor: Arthur Machen became a regular contributor to Lord Alfred Douglas's Academy. Machen's conception of the church, with mystic and pagan influences, was compelling to Douglas, and was the first step on his eventual conversion to Catholicism.
AsaYounts: C--What happened at that interview?
W--I felt that this was the man who wanted money from me. I said, "I suppose you have come about my beautiful letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. If you had not been so foolish as to send a copy of it to Mr. Beerbohm Tree,
LauraLeeAuthor: I felt compelled to share this funny little exchange between me and a Lord Alfred Douglas AI chatbot I was playing with.
LauraLeeAuthor: Does he remind anyone else of Lord Alfred Douglas?
LauraLeeAuthor: If you'd like to know more about the life of crime and espionage by a member of Oscar Wilde's circle, Lord Alfred Douglas's lover Maurice Schwabe, here's an interview I did about researching his story:
CathyGreen67: Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas - Poems | Academy of American Poets
“Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.'”
VictorOlliver: My essay on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas is now up on Astrodienst, republished from the Cosmic Intelligence-Agency's TimeLords magazine. The theme is how to find the soul purpose of a dysfunctional relationship through draconic astrology.
RupertDastur: DE PROFUNDIS - the letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while he was incacerted.
Part complain, part reflection, part philosophy, this is a wonderful 10-ish page treat.
LauraLeeAuthor: A footnote in the feud between Lord Alfred Douglas and Robert Ross, 1914.
ivressesdhier: 'Lord Alfred Douglas wants to marry her but she prefers Liane de Pougy'. Montesquiou knew that his comment, uttered as their hands touched, would embarrass the princess much more than a young Amazon like Miss Barney." 2/2
tonyrichards4: 1/14/1981 CWF St Augustine, FL
Bubba Douglas vs. Superfly
Scott McGhee & Bubba Douglas vs. Chris Markoff & Nikolai Volkoff
Dick Slater & Lord Alfred Hayes vs. Manny Fernández & Mike Graham
Bugsy McGraw vs. Dick Murdoch
ozymegdias: -and such a delicate, fey sort of character that reviewers at the time compared him to Lord Alfred Douglas. There's a lot of pervasive coding elements to that whole movie despite the fact that Meinster solely targets women.
s_birrell: Lord Alfred Douglas
(1893)
DeNieuweLiefde: Immerse yourself in the love story of the best-loved writers in the English language and his misunderstood lover with poetry, song, and prose in ‘Two Loves’. a performance on the life and works of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.
godsnumber01: if you haven’t tried reading Lord Alfred Douglas’ poems, please do
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IecristaI: Cartas a Lord Alfred Douglas.
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mateousmus: "I am the Love that dare not speak its name" - Fragmento del poema Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas ❤
DavidCranmerUn1: banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she inherited an estate including a large manor house in Six Mile Bottom and half of her grandfather's fortune.
From 25 December 1920 Lord Alfred Douglas Plain English began publishing notorious articles alleging that a "powerful individual in the
dj_forrester: Chips Channon on Lord Alfred Douglas after the latter’s death in March 1945.
DavidCranmerUn1: Wilhelm II and Albert Ballin, director of the Hamburg America Line.
From 25 December 1920 Lord Alfred Douglas’ Plain English began publishing notorious articles alleging that a "powerful individual in the Admiralty" had alerted the Germans at the Battle of Jutland that the
DavidCranmerUn1: friend, Major Edward Griffiths George Burdon, who was serving as Secretary of the United Russia Societies Association at that time. In an edition of Lord Alfred Douglas’ Plain English journal dated January 1921, it is claimed that Shanks, a former officer in the Royal Navy Air
DavidCranmerUn1: Percy Douglas (1868–1920), succeeded to the peerage instead. Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, his third son, was a close friend of famous author and poet Oscar Wilde.
On 20 March 1878, 31-year-old Rosebery married 27-year-old Hannah de Rothschild (1851–1890), only child and sole
DavidCranmerUn1: industry in South Africa on their behalf, where their agent Cecil Rhodes was consolidating mining deposits which ultimately led to the creation of De Beers.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and
MrsShawHerself: Fab to have you on board Vanessa
I think Lord Alfred Douglas lived in HGWells Road too so something fir everyone!!
Freida45wH: Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas IVQ7XIT
kingfIorence: saintesorciere:Your pale face used to flush easily with wine or pleasure. — Oscar Wilde in De Profundis, originally addressed to Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas.
rant_less: Tonight as a took a ramble through some old notes I remembered this chap.
So typically representative of the sort of muddle headedness we see in the modern Tory, this chap described himself as died in the wool Conservative.
Look him up
Lord Alfred Douglas
h0e_prince: Lord Alfred Douglas is very much me
LauraLeeAuthor: "Darling little girl … Maurice Schwabe has just returned to London. He would like to come down to Lake [Farm] on Friday with me, so I will bring him by the usual evening train on that day unless you would rather not."-Lord Alfred Douglas to his wife, 1907.
DramaticBlond: -Lord Alfred Douglas. -
"Some love too little, some too long,
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die."
Oscar Wilde's Lover. ❤
Annaleen: Just thinking about these guys getting everybody's knickers in a bunch in the 1890s. On the left is Oscar Wilde, playwright and author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, with his boyfriend, Lord Alfred Douglas, whose extremely gay 1892 poem "Two Loves" contained the line "I am (1/2)
OfGoldenYouth: // fun fact that I love!
So I'm obsessed with Oscar Wilde and I have too much knowledge about the man and his friends. Henry's main fc, Stephen Tennant, is a nephew of Lord Alfred Douglas and you can TELL. The family resemblance is strong
planetearthx2: I am the Love that dare not speak its name. – Lord Alfred Douglas. Two Loves.
mrs_falkner: Lord Alfred Douglas, an English poet and journalist, was a one-time partner of Wilde’s. Douglas believed Lord Kitchener was indeed murdered — to keep him from interfering in the Bolshevik Revolution.
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas
mrs_falkner: Lord Alfred Douglas was born into “one of the richest and most important families in Scotland”
lawrenti4n: I just opened my newly bought second-hand copy of Hugh David's On Queer Street (1997) & it begins with the memorable line, "I once kissed a man who'd once been kissed by Lord Alfred Douglas."
This is going to be a good read.
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LauraLeeAuthor: In Oscar's Ghost there was a recently rediscovered letter from Lord Alfred Douglas to a young man named Jack who he had golfed with. "Will you write to me like a good boy?"
MissKhaosland: But at the height of his fame and success he had an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas' father, the Marquess of Queensberry, outraged by their relationship, tried to vilify Wilde not only as a "sodomite" but as a dangerous, malignant influence for the British society.
mercedeskat45: Additionally, he's confounded by the "love that dare not speak its name," a love that he feels for his "Bosie," as he imagines Robbie to be. (Bosie refers to Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde's lover.)
JupiterSpurlock: Stephen Fry and Jude Law as Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) and Lord Alfred Douglas in 'Wilde' (Brian Gilbert, 1997). The screenplay by playwright Julian Mitchell ('Another Country') is based on the biography by Richard Ellmann.
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RichGriese: Movie; Dorian Gray (2009) Directed by Oliver Parker
paledave: written from Wilde's jail cell, it is a cri de coeur, Wilde dissecting his ruinous relationship with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, a nasty piece of work. Oscar doesn't spare himself, but also gives Bosie the utterest condemnation i've ever seen in print. no airs, no pretensions.
uniquetreasur20: Check out La Revue Blanche 15 mai 1896 N. 71 (FT LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS: POEMS) PLS READ DESC
sailornor: "All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears." - Lord Alfred Douglas
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Bloodscarecrow1: Oscar Wilde also wrote a letter in prison called De Profundis to his gay lover lord Alfred Douglas
LauraLeeAuthor: Curious about Lord Alfred Douglas's 1902 meeting with Maurice Schwabe at the Hotel Metropole? Order your advance copy of Wilde Nights & Robber Barons today.
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DavidCranmerUn1: Elders of Zion in Britain. According to a letter written by art historian Robert Hobart Cust, the pamphlet had been translated, prepared, and paid for by George Shanks.
In an edition of Lord Alfred Douglas’ Plain English journal dated January 1921, it is claimed that Shanks, a
DavidCranmerUn1: as Private Secretary to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in Britain's Coalition Government.
Lord Alfred Douglas was jailed for libelling Winston Churchill over claims of World War I misconduct.
Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son
LauraLeeAuthor: My forthcoming book is on a man who was Lord Alfred Douglas's lover, a procurer for Oscar Wilde, a member of an organized syndicate of gentlemen con artists and a spy. Looking for recommendations for outlets that might want to review or feature.
lgbtplushistory: La lettera di Oscar Wilde all'amato lord Alfred Douglas -
CarlCarlwalsh20: The only dirtbag among them who thought he'd gotten away with it is Lord Alfred Douglas.
But they all find out in the end--in the case of Douglas, too late--that all you did was hang yourself with rope laughingly provided to you.
NathanFrancis__: "I am the love that dare not speak its name."
"Two Loves":
babybeatlefreak: 2/2 Also born on this day, Franz Liszt (1811), Sarah Bernhardt (1845), Alfred Lord Douglas (1870), Jerome Horwitz (Curly Howard)(1903), Joan Fontaine (1917) and Timothy Leary (1920).
