Olivia Shakespear, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Olivia Shakespear

British writer

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1863

Place of Birth: Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1938

Profession: writer, playwright, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Olivia Shakespear

  • Olivia Shakespear (née Tucker; 17 March 1863 – 3 October 1938) was a British novelist, playwright, and patron of the arts.
  • She wrote six books that are described as "marriage problem" novels.
  • Her works sold poorly, sometimes only a few hundred copies.
  • Her last novel, Uncle Hilary, is considered her best.
  • She wrote two plays in collaboration with Florence Farr. Olivia was the daughter of a retired Adjutant General, and had little formal education.
  • She was well-read however, and developed a love of literature.
  • In 1885 she married London barrister Henry Hope Shakespear, and in 1886 gave birth to their only child, Dorothy.
  • In 1894 her literary interests led to a friendship with William Butler Yeats that became physically intimate in 1896.
  • He declared that they "had many days of happiness" to come, but the affair ended in 1897.
  • They nevertheless remained lifelong friends and corresponded frequently.
  • Yeats went on to marry Georgie Hyde-Lees, Olivia's step-niece and Dorothy's best friend. Olivia began hosting weekly salons frequented by Ezra Pound and other modernist writers and artists in 1909, and became influential in London literary society.
  • Olivia's daughter Dorothy Shakespear married Pound in 1914, despite the less than enthusiastic blessing of her parents.
  • After their marriage, Pound would use funds received from Olivia to support T.
  • S.
  • Eliot and James Joyce.
  • When Dorothy gave birth to a son, Omar Pound, in France in 1926, Olivia assumed guardianship of the boy.
  • He lived with Olivia until her death twelve years later, in 1938.

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