The Inn of Dreams

About This Book

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. She was born the only daughter and heiress of Colonel Frederick Custance, who was a wealthy and distinguished soldier in the British army. In 1902, she eloped and married Lord Alfred Douglas. A year later They had one child, however, 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. Their son, ...