Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960), who co-authored works under the pseudonym Isabel Meredith, was an English activist, author, translator, and editor. Born into the prominent Rossetti family—her father was the writer William Michael Rossetti, and her aunt and uncle were Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti—she grew up surrounded by the pre-eminent artistic and literary figures of late Victorian England.
In her youth, Agresti and her sister Helen embraced radical politics, editing the anarchist journal The Torch from their family home. This period of her life inspired the semi-autobiographical novel A Girl Among the Anarchists (1903), published under the joint pseudonym Isabel Meredith. The novel offered a vivid, critical insider account of the late-nineteenth-century anarchist movement in London.
Agresti's political and professional trajectory shifted significantly in her later years. She moved to Italy, where she worked as an interpreter and became involved with the International Institute of Agriculture. Her early anarchist views eventually gave way to work with the League of Nations, and she ultimately became a supporter of Italian Fascism, representing a highly unconventional intellectual journey.
