Pound, and continued her career as concert violinist until the Second World War. Her advocacy of the works of Vivaldi, which included publishing a catalogue of his works and an article in the Grove Dictionary of Music, did much to establish his modern day popularity. She discovered and publicised 309 Vivaldi concertos which had either been lost or forgotten. However, it is as Pound's muse, mistress, and champion that she is chiefly remembered today. Anne Conover's book Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound (2001) is one of the few to credit Rudge for her own endeavours as well as her role of muse to Ezra Pound. Shortly before his death, Pound wrote of Rudge: There is more courage in Olga's little finger than in the whole of my carcass ... she kept me alive for ten years, for which no one will thank her. The true story will not be told until her version is known. References Sources Anne Conover (2001). Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; . John Berendt (2005). The City of Falling Angels. New York: Penguin Press; Olga Rudge Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. M E Grenander. BOOK REVIEW: Pull down thy Vanity: Psychiatry and its Discontents Notes Barbara C. Eastman, Literary Review of Canada describes her as "gifted". A. David Moody, author of Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet describes her as possessing a "talent". Rudge Papers, Yale. Rudge Papers, Yale. Conover. Rudge Papers, Yale. The incomplete manuscript is in Box 115, folders 2814–24 Rudge Papers, Yale. Berendt. Grenander. Grenander. Berendt. Grenander. Grenander. Conover. Berendt. Berendt. Berendt. Berendt page 183. a more detailed description of Berendt's views. Berendt. Berendt. Berendt. Conover. External links Fondazione Georgio Cini, the Rudge collection. Olga Rudge Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Olga Rudge Papers Addition. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Olga Rudge Papers (Digital) Digital collection from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University 1918 passport photo of Olga Rudge American classical violinists Ezra Pound Burials at Isola di San Michele American centenarians 1895 births 1996 deaths American expatriates in Italy American expatriates in France American expatriates in the United Kingdom Musicians from Youngstown, Ohio 20th-century classical violinists Women centenarians Women classical violinists