After moving to France, SA
hosted a Paris salon that attracted many literary and political figures.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
134
According to her granddaughter Janet Ross
, because SA
was poor, intellect alone was the attraction and the...
Other Life Event
Lucie Duff Gordon
In December 1844, LDG
took in a young African male servant, Hassan el-Bakkeet
, whom she found on her doorstep after he had been turned out by his Italian master. According to LDG
's daughter
Health
Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG
was too ill to see her daughter Janet
marry Henry James Ross
a year after this, on 5 December 1860.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface and Introduction”. Letters from Egypt (1862-1869), edited by Gordon Waterfield, Enlarged Centenary edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, p. xiii - 39.
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Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
The work was a tremendous success and ran to several editions, the contents of which are variable. In 1969, for example, LDG
's great-grandson Gordon Waterfield
produced a volume containing letters that had been omitted...