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Olga de Meyer: a woman of maddening ambiguity. We hear of her as artist’s muse, fencer, writer, possible illegitimate child of King Edward VII, and drug addict chasing her youth to the grave. We hear stories of her from others’ lips, but do we have anything of her from her own?
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
“Women Fencers Met at the Colony Club”, The New York Times, 7 January 1913
Of Passions and Tenderness: Portraits of Olga by Baron de Meyer with essay by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy and edited by G. Ray Hawkins
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The Devil’s Pass Key summary via Wikipedia