Madeleine Deslandes

Baronne Madeleine Annette Edmé Angélique Vivier-Deslandes was a French writer associated with the English Pre-Raphaelites. She was the subject of a painting by Edward Burne-Jones.
Deslandes travelled to England in 1893 to meet Burne-Jones in preparation for an article that she was writing about him for Le Figaro. It was arranged that Burne-Jones would paint Deslandes' portrait, which he did in 1895–96.
Deslandes wrote under the pseudonym "Ossit". She wrote four novels : A quoi bon?, Ilse, Il n'y a plus d'îles bienheureuses and Cyrène.
According to Emily Wubben, Deslandes "pursued a glittering social life in Parisian literary and artistic circles. She was celebrated as a hostess of a cultured salon that attracted the presence of renowned artists, poets and composers." She once entered a lion's cage at a fair and recited poetry by Jean Richepin.