Daphne Olivier

Daphne Olivier (1889- 14 July 1950) was the third daughter of Sydney Haldane Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and Margaret Cox; she was sister of Margery (1886–1974), Brynhild (1887–1935) and Noel (1893–1969). She established the first Rudolf Steiner school in England with her husband Cecil Harwood in 1925.^[1]

Daphne studied literature at Newnham College, Cambridge. She married on 14 August 1925, becoming Daphne Harwood.^[2] Harwood and her became disciples of Steiner in Germany. Daphne translated a number of Steiner's works into English. She was a teacher at this first Steiner school. It later moved to East Grinstead, Sussex.

Harwood was a friend of C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, a fellow disciple of Steiner. Lewis was a frequent visitor to the couple’s home in London and became godfather to their son Laurence. Daphne had five children. She died in 1950 of cancer.

References

1. ^ Paul Delany. The Neo-Pagans - Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle. (1987 Macmillan London) p.230.
2. ^ The Peerage

Further reading

• Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans - Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle. Macmillan. London. 1987. ISBN 0-333-44572-4 (hc)

External links

• Portrait study by Vanessa Bell

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Name	Olivier, Daphne
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Date of birth	1889
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Date of death	1950
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