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Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (died 1945)

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Lord Alfred Douglas

English poet and journalist (1870–1945)

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, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy…
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October 22

Day of the year

October 22 is the 295th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.
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