Nobel Prize winning author André Gide, whom she met by chance in the summer of 1918 when she was fifty-two, and with whom she struck up a lively correspondence. She adored him and translated all his works into English. Their long-distance friendship lasted for over thirty years. Their letters are published in Richard Tedeschi's Selected Letters of Andre Gide and Dorothy Bussy, and there is also a three-volume French edition. The originals are preserved in the British Library. Her daughter was the painter Jane Simone Bussy (1906–1960). Legacy Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women's music, named after the heroine of the 1949 novel Olivia by Bussy (the heroine and the novel both being named Olivia.) References Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: The New Biography, 1994. External links Review of reprint of Olivia Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books. 1865 births 1960 deaths English women novelists British bisexual writers French–English translators Dorothy Bussy Bisexual women English LGBT novelists 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers 20th-century translators Literary translators