Oscar Wilde, extremely delighted to hear from his onetime bosom friend Bosie again after an. Bosie's father, John Sholto Douglas drove Wilde to take legal action after Douglas's behavior. Lord Alfred Douglas (24 years) is looking for Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
ALFRED DOUGLAS TRIAL
Wilde was on trial three times, and Bosie testified for one of them, and then was out of the country for the other two. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. Wilde was even introduced to Bosie's mother, Lady Bracknell, and he made her a character in his most popular comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. Ultimately, Bosie is said to have played a major involvement in the arrest of Wilde because of his erratic behavior and habits that influenced Oscar. Bosie, who got that nickname because he was his mother's favorite child and called him Bosie (a derivative of "boysie") was infatuated with the book and told Wilde that he had read it fourteen times in a row. Soon after, they became lovers and where only parted when Wilde was arrested four years later. His cousin lent him a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bosie insisted on being introduced to the author after reading it. Lord Alfred Douglas was a young aristocrat and poet.
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