Lucie Duff Gordon
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due to her complexities rather than to her failings.
, mid-Victorian translator, letter-writer, and travel-writer, published ten translations undertaken to help support her family. Her three volumes of travel letters were not originally intended for publication, and perhaps owe their honest style and natural tone to this very fact. Her work is occasionally discussed in essays on Victorian women travel writers. Its comparative neglect may be, as one source suggests, - BirthName: Lucie Austin As a child y, and her mother and her husband also preferred this spelling. Her marriage certificate lists her as Lucy, but apart from one document in 1867, she generally signed her name with the original ie spelling after 1840.chose to spell her name with a
- Nickname: ToodieThis, no doubt a childish version of Lucie, was the way she signed her letters to her husband which were later published, though not intended for publication.
- Married: Lady Duff Gordon
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- Indexed: Duff-Gordon; Lucie Duff Gordon