About “Olivia”
Olivia is a novel written by Dorothy Bussy and published in 1949 by Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Bussy wrote the book in French and used the pseudonym "Olivia," a name associated with one of her sisters who died in infancy. The novel was translated into English and then retranslated back into French. Bussy dedicated the book "to the very dear memory of Virginia W." Olivia was her only novel. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1936
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