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Josefa Durán y Ortega (c. 1830–1872), known by the stage name Pepita de Oliva, was a Romani Spanish dancer who performed across Europe, popularizing Spanish flamenco dancing and costumes. Despite her official marriage with her dance teacher Juan Antonio Gabriel de la Oliva in 1851, the following year she established a partnership with the British diplomat Lionel Sackville-West with whom she had five children. Her daughter Victoria gave birth to the English writer Vita Sackville-West, who in 1937 published a biography of her grandmother titled Pepita.[1][2][3]
- ^ "Josefa Durán y Ortega" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Hstoria. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ Díaz Pérez, Eva (22 April 2017). "El curioso parentesco entre la gitana Pepita Oliva y Virginia Woolf". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- ^ Sackville-West, Vita (2016). Pepita. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-4504-5.