Olga Rudge  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search Olga Rudge, c. 1915  Olga Rudge (13 April
1895, Youngstown, Ohio – 15 March 1996) was an American-born
concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time
mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter,
Mary.   Rudge survived Pound by twenty-four years, remaining in
the small house in Venice she had shared with him. In her
declining years, an ongoing difficult relationship with Mary,
her only child, left her vulnerable to the attention of parties
with ulterior motives, resulting in the sad situation described
in John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels, in which Rudge
could not account for how Pound's papers and letters in her
possession had found their way to Yale University. Failing
health eventually forced her to leave her beloved Venice and
spend her final days with her daughter. Rudge died a month
before her 101st birthday and is buried next to Pound in
Venice's Isola di San Michele cemetery.  Early life[edi