#queensberry

[uncle-oscar-and-lord-bosie]

One of the things that most motivates me to publish is trying to help, within my limited means, the few brave souls who have dared to attempt to do justice to a loyal man and honorable, as was Lord Alfred Douglas, despite all the lies that were spread about him.

You can judge for yourself; I just want to remind you that this is a space for love, poetry, art, and justice. 🤎

Please read what the Marchioness says in an impartial manner.

[helplessly-johnlocked]

Oscar Wilde's 1895 trials

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Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1895)

The Trials of Oscar Wilde: An Account

Transcript of the Libel Trial Prosecuted by Oscar Wilde (April 3-5, 1895)

The Criminal Trials of Oscar Wilde: Transcript Excerpts (1)

The Criminal Trials of Oscar Wilde: Transcript Excerpts (2)

Wilde's Writings on Trial

Queensberry [Bosie's father] on the subject of Oscar Wilde

Letters from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas

Poems Written by Lord Alfred Douglas ('Two Loves' & 'In Praise of Shame')

Wilde's Prison Writings

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Newspaper reviews)

Homosexuality and the Law in England

Links to Sites Relating to the Trials of Oscar Wilde

All links provided by famous-trials.com

[brokeandfamouseu]

nasty nas // 

[wandawalkerway]

[germanlanguagerocks]

Damals, als noch niemand wusste, dass Leo mal bei Adam sucht Eva mitmachen wird.

[uncle-oscar-and-lord-bosie]

Three months after Oscar went to prison, Bosie wrote a poem called Rondeau:

If he were here, this glorious sky,

This sweet blue sea, these ships that lie

On the bay’s bosom, like white sheep

On English fields, these hours that creep

Golden in summer’s panoply,

This wind that seems a lover’s sigh,

Would make a heaven of peace as high

As God’s great love, a bliss as deep,

If he were here.

This great peace does but magnify

My great unrest that will not die,

My deep despair that may not reap

One poppy, one poor hour of sleep,

Nor aught but pain to wake and cry,

‘If he were here!’

Bosie poem.

[uncle-oscar-and-lord-bosie]

"...even if [Wilde] had never written a line... he would still be the most wonderful man I ever met, and so far beyond the ordinary 'good talker' that I have never been able to discover anyone who was in the same class with him or even remotely approached it."

-Lord Alfred Douglas

[uncle-oscar-and-lord-bosie]

This is probably how Lord Alfred Douglas (bosie) would look in the present, I imagine him in this style because in his time he dressed very fashionable, elegant, loose and used light and feminine colors.

To learn more about his aesthetic, read Robert Hitchen's Green Carnation.

I don't remember where I read that he said he couldn't have long hair (like in his childhood) because his father (the Marquis) didn't allow it.