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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.
Jan 10, 1988 · When Olivia Shakespear (Pound's future mother-in-law and Yeats's former lover) finally brought Pound to one of Yeats's Monday evenings in May 1909, he set out to establish just Yeats and...
Feb 18, 2019 · Pictured are the newly acquired letters between WB Yeats and his first lover and close friend, the English writer Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938) at the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The letters date from 1895 to 1936 and most are from Yeats to Shakespear.
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
Jun 15, 2018 · Olivia Tucker Shakespear (1863-1938): a married woman who became William Butler Yeats’s mistress in 1895, only to be forsaken by him a year later when he became infatuated with Maud Gonne. Dorothy Shakespear Pound (1886-1973): daughter of the above and wife of the poet Ezra Pound.
Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938) is best known today as the mistress and longtime friend of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, but she was also an important – if now neglected – author in her own right.
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Olivia Shakespear is the author of Beauty's Hour (3.79 avg rating, 48 ratings, 8 reviews, published 1896) and The Beloved of Hathor the The Shrine of the...
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