Olivia Tucker (1863-03-17)17 March 1863 Isle of Wight, England
Died
3 October 1938(1938-10-03) (aged 75) London, England
Children
Dorothy Shakespear
Relatives
Lionel Johnson
Omar Pound
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 magnum opus. 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,[1] but the affair ended in 1897. They nevertheless remained lifelong friends and corresponded frequently. On October 20, 1917, Yeats went on to marry Georgie Hyde-Lees, Olivia Shakespear'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.
OliviaShakespear (née Tucker; 17 March 1863 – 3 October 1938) was a British novelist, playwright, and patron of the arts. She wrote six books that are...
Dorothy Shakespear (14 September 1886 – 8 December 1973) was an English artist. She was the daughter of novelist OliviaShakespear and the wife of American...
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At a literary salon in 1909, Pound met the novelist OliviaShakespear and later at the Shakespears' home at 12 Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, was introduced...
Omar Shakespear Pound (10 September 1926 – 2 March 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. The son of Ezra Pound and his wife Dorothy...
Theosophical Society of London, and went on to write and produce (with OliviaShakespear) two Egyptian-themed plays, The Shrine of the Golden Hawk and The...
(1897). Johnson was a member of the Rhymers' Club, and cousin to OliviaShakespear (who dedicated her novel The False Laurel to him). Johnson died of...
series of nude bronzes. During this period she became friendly with OliviaShakespear and Ezra Pound. She went on to have a love affair with Brzeska, and...
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ancestor) Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather) Dorothy Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) OliviaShakespear (mother-in-law) Olga Rudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz...
ancestor) Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather) Dorothy Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) OliviaShakespear (mother-in-law) Olga Rudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz...
of Connaught, grandson of Queen Victoria (born 1883) 3 October – OliviaShakespear, novelist, playwright, and patron of the arts (born 1863) 24 October...
1945) 11 March – Andrew Stoddart, sportsman (died 1915) 17 March - OliviaShakespear, novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (died 1938) 27 March...
ancestor) Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather) Dorothy Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) OliviaShakespear (mother-in-law) Olga Rudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz...
corresponding to Yeats, his father, Maud Gonne, MacGregor Mathers, and OliviaShakespear. The location is based on the country houses of Edward Martyn, Count...
ancestor) Thaddeus C. Pound (grandfather) Dorothy Shakespear (wife) Omar Pound (son) OliviaShakespear (mother-in-law) Olga Rudge (partner) Mary de Rachewiltz...
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