Lord Alfred Douglas
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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At the University of Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp
Douglas in 1903 (by George Charles Beresford)
His father, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, May 1893
The calling card, labelled Exhibit A in the trial (bottom left corner)
De Profundis (letter)
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De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to his friend and lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas.
Lord Alfred Douglas
…Wandsworth, then famously in Reading Gaol. Douglas was forced into exile in Europe. While in prison, Wilde wrote Douglas a long and critical letter titled De Profundis, describing how he felt about him. Wilde was not permitted to send it but it might have been sent to Douglas after Wilde's release. It was given to…
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde in New York in 1882; by 1897 he had lost much weight after a year and a half in prison.
Wilde's cell in Reading Gaol where he wrote De Profundis – as it appears presently (2016).