OLIVE CUSTANCE WAS the long-suffering wife of Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful young man over whom Oscar Wilde lost his reputation, livelihood and family. But at the same time Lord Alfred was holding court in Oxford, his future wife, Olive, was already holding court in London. She ventured into literary society very young, at the age of sixteen in the London of the 1890s, surrounded by admirers of both sexes. A Catholic convert, like her husband, she was also an accomplished poet and her work is now being rediscovered. This talk was delivered (online) as part of the Chavagnes 2020 Summer conference: Faith and the fin de Siècle.