Matilda Betham-Edwards
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Over the course of a career spanning the later nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth, France, but she also wrote poetry and children's books, and edited and introduced the works of others. As a travel writer she is unusually sensitive to the conditions of peasant life on the land; as a novelist she draws heavily on actual experience, whether lived or observed.
maintained a phenomenally high publishing output and covered most viable genres. She was best known for her novels and her travel-books about