Lord Alfred Douglas Academy" and later repudiated by Douglas), "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" (1940) and two memoirs, "The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas" (1929) and "Without Apology" (1938). Douglas also was the editor of a literary journal, "The Academy", from 1907 to 1910 and during this time he had an affair with artist Romaine Brooks, who was also bisexual (the main love of her life, Natalie Clifford Barney, also had an affair with Wilde's niece Dorothy and even, in 1901, with Douglas's future wife Olive Custance, the year before the couple married). In 1920 he edited and write many articles for the
Lord Alfred Douglas stock market raid and no present of fine furniture". In 1924, while in prison, Douglas, in an echo of Wilde's composition of "De Profundis" (Latin for "From the Depths") during his incarceration, wrote his last major poetic work, "In Excelsis" (In the Highest), which contains 17 cantos. Since the prison authorities would not allow Douglas to take the manuscript with him when he was released, he had to rewrite the work from memory. Douglas maintained that his health never recovered from his harsh prison ordeal, which included sleeping on a plank bed without a mattress. Following his incarceration in 1924,