Una Pope-Hennessy
Dame Una Constance Pope-Hennessy (born Birch, born April 21, 1875 - August 1, 1949 ) was an English translator , non-fiction author and biographer who published her books mostly under her maiden name Una Birch .
Birch was the daughter of Arthur Birch (1837-1914), a former colonial official and bank manager . In 1910 she married the Irish-born general and politician Richard Pope-Hennessy (1875-1942) and had two sons with him, the art historian John Pope-Hennessy (1913-1994) and the writer James Pope-Hennessy (1916-1974). Birch converted to Catholicism the religion of her husband and was honored for her volunteer work in the First World War in 1919 to the Lady of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem (LGSt.J.) and 1920 to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire appointed (DBE) . She lived with her family in London and accompanied her husband on his professional stays in Ireland, Washington, Leningrad and Berlin.
Birch wrote non-fiction books on a wide variety of subjects. She wrote about Chinese jade art, secret societies and Leningrad under Stalin. Her most famous works, however, can be found among her biographies, including above all Three English Women in America (1929, about Frances Trollope , Fanny Kemble and Harriet Martineau ), Edgar Allan Poe (! 934), Agnes Strickland : Biographer of the Queens of England ( 1940) and Charles Dickens (1945).
Works (selection)
- Maxims of a Queen (1907, via Christina of Sweden , translation)
- Anna van Schurman : Artist, Scholar, Saint (1909)
- Secret Societies and the French Revolution , London 1911, Archive , currently published as James Wassermann (Ed.): Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons and the French Revolution . Nicolas Hayes, 2007, ISBN 978-0892541324
- Madame Roland : A Study in Revolution (1917)
- Early Chinese Jades (1923)
- Three English Women in America (1929, about Frances Trollope , Fanny Kemble and Harriet Martineau )
- The Aristocratic Journey (1931)
- The Laird of Abbotsford: An Informal Presentation of Sir Walter Scott (1932)
- Edgar Allan Poe , 1809–1849: A Critical Biography (1934)
- The Closed City: Impressions of a Visit to Leningrad (1938)
- Agnes Strickland : Biographer of the Queens of England (1940)
- Durham Company (1941; about the literary associations of County Durham )
- Charles Dickens (1945)
- A Jade Miscellany (1946)
- Sir Walter Scott (1948)
- A Czarina's Story (1948, translation)
- Canon Charles Kingsley (1948)
literature
- Cathy Hartley: A Historical Dictionary of British Women . Psychology Press (Routledge), 2003, ISBN 9781857432282 , p. 357
- James Wassermann (Ed.): Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons and the French Revolution . Nicolas Hayes, 2007, ISBN 978-0892541324 , pp. 49-50
Remarks
- ↑ According to the data on her tombstone. Note that the given literature (Hartley, Wassermann) gives a wrong year of birth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pope-Hennessy, Una |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pope-Hennessy, Dame Una Constance (full name); Birch, Una; Birch, Una (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English translator, non-fiction author and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1875 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1949 |
| Place of death | Crawley, Crawley Borough, West Sussex, England |