Matilda Betham-Edwards

Broschiertes Buch

Holidays in Eastern France

Beschreibung

Matilda Betham-Edwards was born in 1836. She was a novelist, travel writer and had a great interest in anything French. Betham-Edwards was a prolific poet and wrote several children's books. She was of Huguenot ancestry and considered France her second homeland. It was her mission to create better understanding between France and England. In this delightful travel book the author discusses the Valley of the Marne, Noisiel: the City of Chocolate, Provins and Troyes, French Protestants at Montbeliard, St. Hippolyte, Morteau, and the Swiss Borderland, Besancon and its Environs, Ornans, Courbet's Country, and the Valley of the Loue, Salins, Arbois, and the Wine Country of the Jura, Lons-le-Saunier, Champagnole and Morez, St. Claude: the Bishopric in the Mountains, and Nantua and the Church of Brou.

Autor

Matilda Betham-Edwards was an English novelist, travel writer, Francophile, and prolific poet who corresponded with several well-known English male writers of the day. In addition, she wrote several children's books. Betham-Edwards was the fourth child of Edward Edwards (1808-1864), a farmer, and his wife Barbara (1806-1848), daughter of William Betham (1749-1839), an antiquary and preacher. She was educated in Ipswich and worked as a governess-pupil at a school in London. Her first novel, The White House by the Sea (1857), was an immediate success, reissued numerous times, pirated in the United States, and remained in print for forty years. Matilda studied French and German abroad before moving to Suffolk with her sister to oversee her father's farm. Not happy with solely rural jobs, she occasionally contributed to Household Words, benefiting from Dickens' connection and an early association with Charles and Mary Lamb, her mother's companions. After her sister died, she relocated to London and authored a number of novels on French life based on her numerous journeys to France and intimate knowledge of provincial French households, as well as children's and non-fiction works about France. She was published by George and Richard Bentley. She resided in Algeria with feminist educator Barbara Bodichon and accompanied her on trips to France and Spain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781438594507
• ISBN-10: 143859450X
• Artikelnr.: 36656408