Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | Eighteen-year-old Lucie Austin
married Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
at Kensington Old Church. Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17. 5 Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 109 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her husband
was given the post of Commissioner of Inland Revenue in 1856. Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface and Introduction”. Letters from Egypt (1862-1869), edited by Gordon Waterfield, Enlarged Centenary edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, p. xiii - 39. 26 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Living once again with her parents in London, Lucie Austin began an active social life. She was introduced to Queen Victoria
, met and became friendly with Caroline Norton
, and was introduced to... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | In the mid-1840s CN
acquired some new friends: biographer John Gibson Lockhart
, author Alexander William Kinglake
, rising young statesman Sidney Herbert
(direct descendant of the Countess of Pembroke
), and the intellectual translator... |
Reception | Sarah Austin | Her pension was left in trust to her daughter's husband Sir Alexander Duff Gordon
, and Henry Reeve
. |
Textual Features | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
's own representations of Egyptian and South African people, however, have today become a subject of critical debate over their alleged objectification of their subjects. While she seeks to understand and enter into the... |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | Though LDG
was a keen letter-writer during her youth, her first serious literary effort, a translation from German, was done in an attempt to support her family (who until then survived on the income, meagre... |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | In 1848 LDG
and her husband
collaborated on a translation, Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and History of Prussia, from the German of Leopold von Ranke
, which was published the following year. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 152, 374 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | South Africa was the first place where LDG
lived on doctor's orders, apart from her family, in hopes that the warm, dry climate would help relieve her from tuberculosis. She began writing letters to her... |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | Shortly before her death LDG
expressed her regret that she had not been able to publish all that she had seen and heard during her time in Egypt. She wrote to her husband
,... |
Travel | Lucie Duff Gordon | In September 1854, LDG
and her husband
travelled to Paris for a holiday. While there Lucie was reunited with the dying Heinrich Heine
, who gave her the copyright to all of his works and... |
Travel | Lucie Duff Gordon | Despite fierce weather during the trip her spirits were indomitable. She wrote to her husband
while on the voyage, Since I wrote last, we got into the south-west monsoon for one day, and I sat... |
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