Custance, Olive (1874–1944)
Custance, Olive (1874–1944)
British poet. Name variations: Lady Alfred Douglas; (pseudonym) Opals. Born Feb 7, 1874, in Norfolk, England; died Feb 12, 1944, in East Sussex, England; dau. of Colonel Frederick Hambelton Custance and Eleanor Custance Jolliffee; m. Lord Alfred Douglas (who, as Bosie, had been intimately linked with Oscar Wilde in the infamous libel trial), 1902 (sep. 1911); children: son Raymond (b. 1903).
Poet praised by John Gray, Aubrey Beardsley, and Richard Le Gallienne, wrote Opals (1897), Rainbows (1902), The Blue Bird (1905) and The Inn of Dreams (1911).
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