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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Aubrey Beardsley
| After his death a collection of his poetry and fiction was published. Under what name? | Aubrey Beardsley
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'Under the Hill'. 'Under the Hill' was published in 1904.
| Beardsley died at the age of 25 during the night of March 15-16th 1898, where? | Aubrey Beardsley
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South of France. He died very early in the morning of 16th March in his room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the French Riviera resort of Menton with his mother and sister by his side.
| Up until the age of 20, in what field did Beardsley earn a living? | Aubrey Beardsley
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Insurance. Although he spent a very brief period working in an architectural drawing office the major part of his business life was spent working on insurance ledgers in a dreary office, whilst doing his drawing at night.
| In 1896, Beardsley conspired with Leonard Smithers in the publication of another magazine which held some of his best works. What was this magazine called? | Aubrey Beardsley
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| Beardsley's association with his above mentioned friend led to his dismissal as Art Editor of which illustrated quarterly magazine? | Aubrey Beardsley
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'The Yellow Book'. Although Oscar Wilde made no contribution to the 'Yellow Book,' and indeed was not even an admirer of it, the mere fact of Beardsley's previous association with Wilde (who had been seen clutching an anonymous yellow book!) was enough for the publishers and they were obliged to let Beardsley go.
| With whom did Beardsley form a famous friendship in 1894, which was destined to fizzle out two years later amidst scandal? | Aubrey Beardsley
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Oscar Wilde. Although Beardsley was in no way implicated or involved with Wilde's trial for sodomy and had in fact had no communication with him since the Salome illustrations the mere fact that they had been associated was enough to tar Beardsley with the same brush in the public mind.
| Which famous painter of the time befriended and encouraged Beardsley? | Aubrey Beardsley
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| With what disease was he first diagnosed at the age of 9, which eventually led to his death 16 years later? | Aubrey Beardsley
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| Beardsley had a sister, just a year older than himself and, like him, considered an artistic and musical prodigy. She later became an actress. What was her name? | Aubrey Beardsley
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| Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born on 21 August 1872 in which town in the south of England? | Aubrey Beardsley
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25. Beardsley was sent to Menton by his doctor in the hope that the balmy sea air would help his condition. Four months later he was dead. He continued working until he died, even though bed-ridden and wracked by chills and haemorrhages for those last four months of his life. He crammed a truly meteoric career into his five short years as a full-time professional artist.
Lysistrata. "Lysistrata" is the story of the women of Athens who decided to put an end to war by refusing all sexual favours until the men would stop fighting. Beardsley's illustrations are full of men, dwarfs and hunchbacks with grotesquely huge phalluses and various other bawdy and sensual images. These exquisitely delicate drawings represent the pinnacle of Beardsley's erotic art, but because of the subject matter, these marvellous images were not often reproduced.
| Although he was a member of Oscar Wilde's clique of aesthetes, Beardsley was heterosexual. He had an ongoing sexual relationship with a woman who miscarried (or aborted) his child in 1892. Who was she? | The Fascinating Life of Aubrey Beardsley
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His sister. Beardsley and his sister Mabel had an incestuous relationship that had started in childhood. After Mabel's miscarriage, drawings of diminutive foetus-like monsters started to appear in his work. They shared a house for most of Beardsley's life.
| When his friend Oscar Wilde was convicted of sodomy and sent to jail, Aubrey Beardsley was dismissed from his job at the magazine, whose owners did not want their image tarnished. What contributions by Oscar Wilde had been published in the magazine during Beardsley's editorship? | The Fascinating Life of Aubrey Beardsley
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None. England and the literary world were fascinated by Oscar Wilde's three trials at the Old Bailey (London's Criminal Courts of Justice) in 1895. The trials had it all: celebrities, scandal shocking beyond words for the time, sex, wit, intrigue, surprises and learned discussions on art and morals ... what a pity there was no TV then! The trial transcripts remain riveting reading even today, over one hundred years later.
| Beardsley's fame was established when he became art editor for a quarterly magazine. The venomous elegance of his startling black-and-white drawings made the journal an overnight sensation. What was its name? | The Fascinating Life of Aubrey Beardsley
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The Yellow Book. "The Yellow Book" quarterly was a new type of journal which would attract attention by its format, its contents, and its high literary and artistic quality. Among the contributors were Edmund Gosse, Walter Crane, Sir Frederick Leighton, and Henry James.
| Beardsley's first paid commission was to illustrate Malory's "Morte D'Arthur". This was so well received that he was immediately asked to illustrate Oscar Wilde's scandalous 1892 play which was banned in Britain. What was its title? | The Fascinating Life of Aubrey Beardsley
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Salome. Wilde's one-act tragedy "Salome" was written originally in French. Strauss' opera of the same name is based upon it. The English translation remained banned for 40 years and was not performed in London till 1931. The play deals with the Biblical tale of the erotic dance Salome performs at the court of King Herod, for which he rewards her with the head of John the Baptist.
Mabel. Red-haired Mabel was only a year older than Aubrey. They were always very close and he left all his money to her in his will. She was a renowned beauty, if not a brilliant actress. Invitations to her afternoon tea parties were sought after by the fashionable artists and writers of the day and their hangers-on. It is at one of these parties that Robert Scott (of Antarctic fame) met his future bride, the sculptress Kathleen Bruce.
Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was prone to flowery language: he described Lord Alfred Douglas as having "rose leaf lips " and "a slim gilt soul that walks between poetry and passion". Beardsley's hair was actually a mousy blond, but he did have a very thin, prominent nose that gave him a hatchet-like profile.
insurance clerk. He hated the mundane life of a clerk, and when he received his first commission to illustrate a book, he resigned his post without telling his parents.
tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was endemic in Victorian England - the causes were little understood, treatment consisted of isolating patients in sanatoria or in the case of those who could afford it, sending them to an environment where the air was "pure". The Swiss mountains were a popular destination for prosperous sufferers. Some doctors treated it by injecting air into the chest cavity. It is estimated that in the early 19th century TB caused 40% of deaths in London.
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