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Gioia Grant Richards Owtram (1900–1969)

Gioia Vivian (also Vivienne) Mary Elisina Grant Richards Owtram was the eldest child of Grant Richards and his first wife, ElisinaShe married Thomas Cary Owtram in 1925, and had a daughter, Helen Gillian Owtram, born in London in 1926. Gioia Owtram was the sister of Gerard Grant Richards, Charles Geoffrey Grant Richards, and Geoffrey Herbert Grant Richards as well as the half-sister of William Royall Tyler. She was nicknamed "Babie" by her family. She eventually lived at the Villa Belvedere, Gragnano, in Lucca, Italy.