Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred D...

Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas Murray. recent York: Talk Miramax. 374 pp $2750 London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000 $Can44.95.

"Douglas Murray...marks this year's centenary with a decidedly earnest opus, designed to reclaim the life and honour of Wilde's fractious, self-regarding, compulsively litigious boyfriend, Lord Alfred Douglas.... For all its spurious apologizing, this part remains a treasure trove of detail onward an era of chaotic, and specifically English, moral and sexual panic. principally interestingly, it shows that fear and suppression of sexual