Olive Custance

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Olive Eleanor Custance (1874 – 1944) was a British poet. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book.

In 1902, and after a relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney in Paris in 1901 and an engagement to George Montagu, she married Lord Alfred Douglas. They had one child. The marriage was stormy, after Douglas became a Catholic in 1911. They separated in 1913, lived together for a time in the 1920s after Olive also converted, and then lived apart after she gave up Catholicism.

[edit] Works

• Opals (1897)
• Rainbows (1902)
• The Blue Bird (1905)
• The Inn of Dreams (1911)
• The Selected Poems of Olive Custance (1995) edited by Brocard Sewell

[edit] Reference

• Olive Custance: Her Life and Work (1975) Brocard Sewell