Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

Olave Muriel Potter was a writer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources identify her as a secretary to the writer and academic Douglas Sladen, and later as someone who spent extended time in Italy with the Japanese artist Yoshio Markino.

She is known for books such as A Little Pilgrimage in Italy and The Colour of Rome. These works focus on Italian places, culture, and atmosphere, and Markino illustrated at least some of them, giving her travel writing a strong visual companion.

Although not much biographical detail is easy to confirm, her surviving work suggests a writer deeply interested in the character of cities and the pleasures of careful looking. Today she is mainly remembered through these graceful, place-centered books, which continue to circulate in reprints and digital editions.