Reminiscences

In this 1898 autobiography, Matlida Betham-Edwards recounts significant episodes in her cosmopolitan career as a female professional author.

Matilda Betham-Edwards (Author)

9781108044998, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 May 2012

366 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

The author of numerous popular novels, British author and poet Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919) was also a dedicated Francophile. With books such as France of To-Day (1892), which describes contemporary French life to a British readership, she worked to promote a better understanding between the two nations. In recognition of her efforts, she was made Officier de l'Instruction Publique de France by the French government, and awarded several medals. In this autobiography, first published in 1898, Betham-Edwards recounts significant episodes of her life. She tells of her childhood and education, the publication of her first book in 1857, and her experiences as a female professional author, including meeting George Eliot and John Stuart Mill. Her travel narrative Through Spain to the Sahara (1868), and her editions of the writings of agriculturalist Arthur Young, are also reissued in this series.

1. Childhood
2. Our rector
3. Our village
4. The sons of the soil
5. Lady farmers and others
6. The world of books
7. The social medium
8. The social medium continued
9. Mimosa House
10. The two Dromias
11. Idyllic and bibliographical
12. Old Germany
13. Old Vienna
14. Might have beens
15. Semi-Bohemian Paris
16. A girl farmer
17. The world of letters, art and science
18. More London souvenirs
19. George Eliot and Madame Bodichon
20. George Eliot and Madam Bodichon continued
21. George Eliot's 'Barbara'
22. Leipzig
23. The Goethes at Weimar
24. The Abbé Liszt
25. The Abbé Liszt continued
26. Dr. Thomas Wilson
27. A group of friends.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]