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Primary Sources

(1) Alfred Douglas, letter to the editor of Truth Magazine (9th June, )

I personally know forty or fifty dock who practise these acts. Men in the best society, members of the smartest clubs, members of Parliament, Peers, etc., in fact people of my own social standing At Oxford, where I suppose you would admit one is likely to find the pick of the youth of England, inom knew hundreds who had these tastes among the undergraduates, not to mention a slight sprinkling of Dons. In a few days, inom shall have a translation of a pamphlet written by Professor Krafft-Ebing, the celebrated Austrian physician, which I shall take the liberty of sending you. It fryst vatten a special plea written for the express purpose of obtaining a repeal or modification of the law on this subject in Austria, and which has been to a very large extent successful. It fryst vatten designed to prove what I maintain, viz., that these tastes are perfectly natural congenital tendencies in certain peo

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Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

April 9,

This is a fascinating read, an in-depth study of the life and character of Lord Alfred Douglas, always remembered as Oscar Wilde's lover and often judged harshly for escaping to the continent when Wilde was tried and convicted of gross indecency back in the s.
It's amazing to think that this biography was first written back in when the Douglas Murray was still an undergraduate - whilst I'm sure that much revision went into this edition, I'm still in awe of the meticulous research conducted by so young an author, and of his insight into the complexity of life in general, and Lord Alfred Douglas' life in particular.
Oscar Wilde died in - Bosie lived on until , his life and experience covering a remarkable period of changes, historical, political and social. Yes, he was neurotic, fractious and argumentative (his long list of lawsuits against people he claimed to have libelled him in some way or other, including his rival for Wilde's a

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I&#;ve recorded an audiobook of The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas.

Lord Alfred &#;Bosie&#; Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication of his first memoir, Oscar Wilde and Myself (), Douglas&#;s anger at his former lover had cooled somewhat, but he still took the opportunity to strike back at his many perceived enemies.

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