Lucie Duff Gordon

24 June 1821 - 14 July 1869

Standard Name: Duff Gordon, Lucie

Birth Name: Lucie Austin

Married Name: Lucie Duff Gordon

Titled: Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon

Indexed Name: Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon

Nickname: Toodie

Indexed Name: Lucie Duff Gordon

Used Form: Lucy Duff Gordon

Used Form: Lady Duff Gordon

LDG , 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, due to her complexities rather than to her failings.

Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Sarah Austin	On 24 June 1821, Lucie Austin (the future writer Lady Duff Gordon) was born to SA and John Austin . She was their only child. Financial uncertainty prevented them from increasing their family. As her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Sarah Austin	Another blow was the departure from England on 19 July 1861 of Lucie Duff Gordon , her only child. Lucie was following doctor's orders in seeking a warmer climate, and she returned to England only...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Rigby	Sir Edward Parry , the Arctic explorer, was ER 's cousin; his mother was her paternal aunt. On her father's side she was also related to writer Lucie Duff Gordon . Through her mother's sister...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elinor Glyn	James Wallace , husband of EG 's sister Lucy , gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy...
Friends, Associates	Caroline Clive	CC remained a close friend of her early passion Catherine Gore . qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. She was also acquainted with Mary Russell Mitford , whom she described as priggy, Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head, 1949. 266 Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. and Harriet Martineau
Friends, Associates	William Makepeace Thackeray	WMT was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne 's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...
Friends, Associates	George Meredith	GM knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne —he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood , Lucie Duff Gordon , Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Emily Faithfull	The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...
Literary responses	Emily Eden	The Athenæum reported: A brighter book of travel we have not seen for many a day. It likened EE 's style to that of Lucie Duff Gordon and her wit, satire, and suggestion to those...
Textual Production	Sarah Austin	Janet Ross , SA 's grand-daughter, published Three Generations of Englishwomen: Memoirs and Correspondence of Mrs. John Taylor , Mrs. Sarah Austin , and Lady Duff Gordon. Athenæum. J. Lection. 3190 (1888): 805
Textual Production	Sarah Austin	In 1843 SA 's name first appeared as an editor on a translation from German: Stories of the Gods and Heroes of Greece told by B. Niebuhr to his son. SA edited the work...
Textual Production	Sarah Austin	Later, in 1865 she edited Letters from Egypt, 1863-1865, by her daughter, Lucie Duff Gordon . In the preface, SA asserts that the Englishwoman with a pitiful and helpful hand has the capability of...
Textual Production	Jane Francesca Lady Wilde	The full title was Sidonia the Sorceress, The Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania. In 1894 an edition appeared containing both her translation of Sidonia and Lucie Duff Gordon 's...
Textual Production	Henry James	Although HJ is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers...

Timeline

Late August 1833

An English ship, the Amphitrite, carrying women convicts for transportation in New South Wales, ran aground off the coast of northern France, near Boulogne. There were only four survivors among the 131 people on board.

“Shipwreck Broadsides”. Simply Australia: The Vault: Issue 11.

By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Saturday Review. Chawton.

28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3

Texts

Duff Gordon, Lucie. Discretions and Indiscretions. Jarrolds, 1932.

Austin, Sarah, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Introduction”. Letters from the Cape, Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-20.

Meredith, George, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Introduction”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, p. xix - xxiv.

Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Janet Ross. Last Letters from Egypt. Macmillan, 1875.

Duff Gordon, Lucie et al. Letters from Egypt. Revised ed., R. B. Johnson, 1902.

Duff Gordon, Lucie et al. Letters from Egypt. Virago, 1983.

Duff Gordon, Lucie. Letters from Egypt (1862-1869). Editor Waterfield, Gordon, Enlarged centenary edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.

Duff Gordon, Lucie. Letters from Egypt, 1863-65. Editor Austin, Sarah, Macmillan, 1865.

Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-22.

Duff Gordon, Lucie et al. Letters from the Cape. H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927.

Meinhold, Wilhelm. Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, J. Murray, 1844.

Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.

Feuerbach, P. J. A. von. Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials. Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, Harper, 1846.

Feuerbach, P. J. A. von. Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials. Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, J. Murray, 1846.

Searight, Sarah, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “New Introduction”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, p. vii - xvii.

Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface”. Letters From Egypt, 1863-65, edited by Sarah Austin, Macmillan, 1865, p. v - xii.

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.

Wailly, Léon de. Stella and Vanessa. Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, R. Bentley, 1850, 2 vols.

Niebuhr, Barthold. Stories of the Gods and Heroes of Greece. Editor Austin, Sarah, Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, John W. Parker, 1843.

Meinhold, Wilhelm, and Philip Burne-Jones. The Amber Witch. Editor Jacobs, Joseph, Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, David Nutt, 1895.