Mathilda Betham-Edwards
Mat (h) ilda Barbara Betham-Edwards (* 1836 in Westerfield , Suffolk , † 1919 in Hastings ) was a British travel writer and author of short stories .
Betham-Edwards was of Huguenot descent, came from a clerical family and began her writing career in early youth. She was the cousin of the British writer and Egyptologist Amelia Edwards . Charles Dickens published her first poem The Golden Bee in All the Year round . Her novels The White House by the Sea (1857) and Doctor Jacob (1864) and Kitty (1869) have been translated into several languages. She has also written A Year in Western France (1875), France of to-day (2 volumes, 1892) and French travel guides, among other writings .
She then wrote novellas again such as Curb of Honor (1893), A Romance of Dijon (1894), For One and the World (1896), A Storment Sky (1898), Reminiscences (1898), Mock Beggar's Wall (1902) and A Humble Lover (1903). In 1908, Betham-Edwards was awarded a medal at the Anglo-French Exhibition in recognition of her tireless work for mutual understanding between England and France. She had previously been appointed Officier de l'Instruction Publique de France by the French government .
Mathilda Betham-Edwards died in Hastings in 1919.
homonym
Mathilda Betham-Edwards is sometimes confused with the Englishwoman Mat (h) ilda Betham, who lived and wrote poetry from 1776 to 1852, and who wrote the long poem Lay of Marie , which deals with Marie de France .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mathilda Betham-Edwards in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/mbe.html (so far only biography of Mathilda Betham-Edwards)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Betham-Edwards, Mathilda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English travel writer and author of short stories |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westerfield , Suffolk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1919 |
| Place of death | Hastings |