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Olivia Shakespear war eine britische Schriftstellerin mit vielen Kontakten in die literarische Welt des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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.
Abstract. Olivia Shakespear was born on 17 March 1863, at Southlands, Chale, on the Isle of Wight. Her father, Major-General Henry Tod Tucker, C.B. (1808–1896), was commissioned into the Bengal Infantry in 1824 and served on Headquarters staff in both Sikh Wars.
- John Harwood
- 1989
Olivia is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. She is at the centre of the various plots, both the comedic and the romantic. She has various suitors.
Yeats’s account in his Memoirs of his love affair with Olivia Shakespear (“Diana Vernon”) and his letters to and about Mrs Shakespear (there are 121 letters in Allen Wade’s edition, all but one dating from the period after 1923 when...
- Marjorie Perloff
- 1992
1‘Who ever had a like profile?–a profile from a Sicilian coin’is Yeats’s celebrated tribute to his first lover Olivia Shakespear, after looking at her image in the 1895 Literary Yearbook. That image is reproduced as the cover of this attractive volume from the enterprising Valancourt Press.
Chapter 1 shows that some of the best poems in Yeats's first great collection, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), were written to Olivia Shakespear, his first lover, and reflect his association of Shakespear with the White Goddess.
