This abstract is from the cover of the book.
Best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) was also a talented poet and great eccentric in his own right. His life, after the death of Oscar Wilde, was one haunted by the ghost of a tragic love affair and tormented by his own notoriety.
In the first biography of Douglas since 1985, BOSIE recounts the full and absorbing story of his complex life. The author, Douglas Murray has had unprecedented access to diaries, letters and key literary manuscripts making this the most comprehensive account to date. After the death of Wilde, Bosie pursued his poetry, converted to Roman Catholicism, renounced homosexuality, and embarked on an ill-fated marriage to Olive Custance. He also spent much of his time launching endless legal campaigns and fruitless suits against newspapers and individuals, including one against Winston Churchill, which landed him in jail.
Praise for Bosie
” ...meticulous, judicious, and surprisingly lively biography… Murray's Bosie is more complex and, ultimately, sympathetic than the one you thought you knew.”
— The New Yorker
“Bosie illuminates the dark history of a complex man whose scandalous, youthful affair brought him an unenviable immortality - as an intriguing, mysterious footnote in his famous lover's life story'.
— Francine Prose, Elle Magazine
“Murray's book is very much a Bosie biography with a difference…Murray concentrates on Douglas's poetry…(his) criticism is far more detailed than that of former biographers…”
— Times Literary Supplement
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