this just came up for me now literally on the way to bookclub which is tactically a good way to ensure we will discuss

also just learnt Olwyn at one point lived in Doris Lessing’s basement!

from Olwyn Hughes's obituary in The Guardian: "she was what the essayist William Hazlitt called “a good hater”."

oh, thank you so much, Rachael, I'm so glad you liked it! @msfriedmann.bsky.social , I recently acquired your tarot book & am really looking forward to reading it! (and yes, i also read tarot cards & often write about them)

Janet Malcolm on Olwyn Hughes: "a personification of the force that can keep the writer from writing"

(actually google answered this quite quickly... she did)

a question the biographer might answer: did olwyn hughes send emails