26 Facts About Brynhild Olivier

Brynhild Olivier was one of four sisters noted for their progressive ideas, beauty and associations with both Rupert Brooke and his Cambridge circle of Neo-pagans, as well as the Bloomsbury Group.

Brynhild Olivier was married twice, first to the art historian, Hugh Popham in 1912, with whom she had three children, including the art scholar, Anne Olivier Bell.

Brynhild Olivier died in London from aplastic anaemia in 1935, at the age of 47.

The Honourable Brynhild Olivier, known as Bryn, was the second daughter of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and his wife, Margaret Cox.

Brynhild Olivier was one of ten children and among his brothers were Herbert Arnould Olivier, the artist, and Gerard, father of the actor Laurence Olivier.

Brynhild Olivier was born in Bloomsbury, London in 1887 and named after Brynhild Olivier, the wise queen and heroine of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung.

Sydney Brynhild Olivier was a career civil servant in the Colonial Office.

In October 1890, when Bryn was three, Brynhild Olivier received his first posting overseas, leaving his family behind in London.

Brynhild Olivier served for six months as Colonial Secretary in British Honduras.

On his return, the Brynhild Olivier family were ready for a move from London, and Margaret Brynhild Olivier had been inspired by Edward Carpenter's Simple Life.

Brynhild Olivier described them both as "ruthless Valkyries" and as "cruel as savages".

All four daughters were considered striking in their appearance, but Brynhild Olivier was considered the beauty of the family.

Brynhild Olivier had tried painting and for a while was apprenticed to a jeweller in Kent with a view to opening her own studio but found the work hard on her eyes, and incompatible with the long summer vacations she had become used to.

Brynhild Olivier had found the time in Jamaica frustrating because the native population would not pose nude for her to paint.

Brynhild Olivier was despairing of Noel, was feeling suicidal and started to again consider Bryn as his primary love interest.

Brynhild Olivier wrote to her while she was rock climbing in Wales and asked her to join him and take care of him, which she did, although he read far more into this than she did.

Brynhild Olivier's parents were returning to Jamaica, and she had more or less abandoned her dreams of a jewellery studio.

Brynhild Olivier's parents were in Jamaica and did not attend, nor did Brooke, who instead sent her a letter bewailing all their lost opportunities.

Brynhild Olivier confided in her husband, but was shocked to find he did not see it her way, and she was trapped between the demands of two men.

Brynhild Olivier continued to pressure Bryn, eventually persuading her to reluctantly have his child.

Brynhild Olivier did so in the hope of changing his behaviour.

Brynhild Olivier soon concluded that it had made "everything ten times worse".

Brynhild Olivier considered returning to him, insisting he break up with Joan, which he refused.

Brynhild Olivier was bored with her marriage, and although that year the law was changed to allow either partner to sue for divorce on the grounds of adultery, she and Hugh agreed that it should be her adultery, in order to protect his job.

Sydney Brynhild Olivier had just been appointed to cabinet, and elevated to the peerage.

Brynhild Olivier was initially treated with X-rays with no improvement.