Olivia Rossetti Agresti (20 September 1875âÂÂ1960) was a British activist, author, editor, and interpreter. A member of one of England's most prominent artistic and literary families, her unconventional political trajectory began with anarchism, continued with the League of Nations, and ended with Italian Fascism.
Olivia Frances Madox Rossetti was born on 20 September 1875 to William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown. Lucy's father, Ford Madox Brown, painted Lucy and Olivia in 1876.
A member of one of England's most prominent artistic and literary families, her unconventional political trajectory began with anarchism, continued with the League of Nations, and ended with Italian Fascism. Ber involvement with the latter led to an important correspondence and friendship with Ezra Pound, who mentions her twice in The Cantos.
While still in their girlhood, Olivia and her sister, the future Helen Rossetti Angeli (1879âÂÂ1969), began publishing an anarchist journal, The Torch. Years later, using the pseudonym "Isabel Meredith", Olivia and Helen published A Girl Among the Anarchists, a somewhat fictionalized memoir of their days as precocious child revolutionaries.