Reminiscences (1898) 12+

📓 Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "New York, London, Harper & Brothers", 1898 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг.Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836 – 1919) was an English novelist, travel writer and francophile. She was also a prolific poet and wrote several children's books. Born in Suffolk, she was the daughter of a clergyman. She corresponded with well-known English male poets of the day.Her interests ranged widely but a major commitment of her life and work was to France and the French. Of Huguenot descent, she considered France her second native land and made it her mission to bring about better understanding and sympathy between the two countries which shared her allegiance. The French government made her an Officier de l’Instruction Publique de France in recognition of her untiring efforts towards the establishment of a genuine and lasting entente cordiale. She was awarded a medal at the Anglo-French Exhibition of 1908. She is often cited in anthologies of historic lesbian poetry, but there is no strong evidence that she had lesbian tendencies.