Lord Alfred Douglas (1855–1905), was an author, war correspondent for the "Morning Post" during the First Boer War, and a feminist. In 1890, she published a novel, "Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900", in which women's suffrage is achieved after a woman posing as a man named Hector D'Estrange is elected to the House of Commons. The character D'Estrange is clearly based on Oscar Wilde. In 1891, Douglas's cousin Lionel Johnson introduced him to Oscar Wilde; although the playwright was married with two sons, they soon began an affair. In 1894, the Robert Hichens novel "The Green Carnation" was published. Said to be
Lord Alfred Douglas a contributing editor. "Plain English" ran until the end of 1922. Douglas would later admit that its policy was "strongly anti-Semitic". From August 1920 (issue No 8) "Plain English" began publishing a long running series of articles called "The Jewish Peril" by Major-General Count Cherep-Spiridovitch the title of which was taken from the fore-title of George Shanks's version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". "Plain English" advertised (from issue 20) The Britons' second edition of Shank's version the Protocols. Douglas challenged the "Jewish Guardian", published by the League of British Jews, to take him to court suggesting they