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published her first novel, Redeemed in Blood, dedicated to the memory of her brother Lord Francis Douglas
, who died on the Matterhorn. Like most of her fictions it is partly autobiographical.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3243 (1889): 851
Family and Intimate relationships
Florence Dixie
Another tragedy of Florence's childhood happened when her eighteen-year-old brother Lord Francis Douglas
was killed mountaineering: a rope broke as his party was returning from the first ascent of the Matterhorn in Switzerland, led...
Family and Intimate relationships
George Douglas
Her second brother, Lord Francis
, also became famous: for his death, still in his teens, during the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
George Douglas
Its autobiographical elements include a romantic description of the scenes of her childhood and a narrative of her brother Francis
's death on the Matterhorn. The overall tone is pious.
