Olga Roncoroni

Olga Roncoroni became as close to HHR in her later years as a spouse or daughter. Richardson could not have managed without her. Biographer Michael Ackland considers the possibility of a lesbian element in this...

HHR consoled herself by seeking and finding spiritualistic contact with him, but had to admit that this was a poor substitute for the living person. Though she told friends that George was still present with...

HHR made an important and enduring friendship at Lyme: with Olga Roncoroni , a talented musician whose parents were theatre people (the Italian heritage was several generations back) and one of whose jobs was playing...

HHR developed a string of ailments, some of them attributable to inadequate rations. As early as November 1940 she wrote about her complaints in a passage beginning: To grow old is never to feel...

Production of this second volume was held up by her heavy investment of time in accompanying Olga Roncoroni to her daily psychiatrist appointments.

After her husband died HHR gave up both of the houses they had lived in (90 Regent's Park Road in London and Westfield in Lyme Regis), and settled with Olga Roncoroni at a...

HHR 's autobiography, Myself When Young (titled from Edward FitzGerald 's Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm), appeared posthumously in print, as completed after her death by Olga Roncoroni .

HHR 's first scholarly biographer judges that this book's prime value is as a psychological document in which fantasies eclipse, or compulsions elide, verifiable actuality. It is, he says, as revelatory for what it...