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Timeline

Lifetime: 1875 - 1960 Passed: ≈ 64 years ago

Title

Author, Editor

Country/Nationality

British
Wikipedia

Olivia Rossetti Agresti

Olivia Rossetti Agresti 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. Her involvement with the latter led to an important correspondence and friendship with Ezra Pound, who mentions her twice in his Cantos.

While still in their girlhood, Olivia and her sister, the future Helen Rossetti Angeli (1879-1969), 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.

Books by Olivia Rossetti Agresti

A Girl Among the Anarchists Cover image

A Girl Among the Anarchists

Novel
19th century Autobiography Anarchism Life Experiences Communism British

It is a fictionalized autobiography that tells the story of a young woman's political awakening and her involvement with the anarchist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book provides a unique perspective on the anarchist movemen...