“Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.”

— Laura Riding Jackson

Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901–1991

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