The editor rejected the drawing as being obscene. It was decided that Salomé should be published in book form and the Pall Mall Budget asked Aubrey Beardsley for a drawing to illustrate the review. They attempted to get it produced in London with Sarah Bernhardt taking the star role but it was banned by the Lord Chamberlain as being blasphemous. They also worked together and in 1892 Douglas was involved in the French production of Wilde's play, Salomé. The two men entered into a sexual relationship. Cevasco: "Athletic and handsome, popular with his classmates, he applied himself more to writing verse than his studies (he did not take a degree), but while at Oxford he contributed to the Oxford Magazine and edited the Spirit Lamp." In June 1891, Douglas was introduced to Oscar Wilde. In 1889 he entered Magdalen College.Īccording to his biographer, G. Although only an average student he did establish the magazine, the Winchester College Pentagram, which gave him an outlet for his poetry.
His mother called him Bosie, a name that stuck to him for the rest of his life.ĭouglas attended Winchester College (1884–8). Alfred Bruce Douglas, the third son of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844–1900), and his wife, Sybil Montgomery (1845–1935), was born on 22nd October 1870 at Ham Hill near Worcester.
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