French writer (1866–1929)
Baronne Madeleine Annette Edmé Angélique Vivier-Deslandes (16 April 1866 – 2 March 1929) was a French writer associated with the English Pre-Raphaelites. She was the subject of a painting by Edward Burne-Jones.
Deslandes travelled to England in 1893 to meet Burne-Jones in preparation for an article that she was writing about him for "Le Figaro". It was arranged that Burne-Jones would paint Deslandes' portrait, which he did in 1895–96.
Deslandes wrote under the pseudonym "Ossit". She wrote four novels : "A quoi bon?" (1892), "Ilse" (1894), "Il n'y a plus d'îles bienheureuses" (1898) and "Cyrène" (1908).
According to Emily Wubben, Deslandes "pursued a glittering social life in Parisian literary and artistic circles. She was celebrated as a hostess of a cultured salon that attracted the presence of renowned artists, poets and composers." She once entered a lion's cage at a fair and recited poetry by Jean Richepin.
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