Lucie Duff Gordon

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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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Black and white, head-and-shoulders sketch of Lucie Duff Gordon in profile by George Frederic Watts, c. 1848, used as frontispiece to Duff Gordon's "Letters From Egypt", 1865. She sits in an armchair, facing to the left, wearing a loose gown with a high neckline, and her smooth hair is pulled back into a low bun. Below is her signature, "Lucie Duff Gordon".

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Travel Edith J. Simcox
Information about her time in Egypt is surprisingly sparse. She mentions reading Lucie Duff Gordon 's Letters from Egypt (which recounts that author's own similar health reasons for travel) several times in the years before...

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