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Reminiscences
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ISBN: 1139177184 1108044999 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Through Spain to the Sahara
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ISBN: 0511756402 1108020682 Year: 1868 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Journalist, children's author and translator, Matilda Betham-Edwards inspired a generation of writers. A correspondent of Henry James and a friend of George Eliot, she belonged to a literary network that spanned the globe. Published in 1868, her account of her journey to the Sahara received immediate critical acclaim for its graceful prose and intelligent insights. Leading readers through the Dordogne to Madrid and on to the mosques and malaria of North Africa, Edwards introduces her audience to relics, landscapes and ancient edifices that reflect a wide spectrum of religions and societies. A farmer's daughter, she pays special attention to the living and working conditions of agricultural communities and their struggle for survival in nineteenth-century Europe. As one reviewer for the Examiner explained, 'stay at home readers can hardly do their travelling by proxy more easily than by running through her entertaining pages'.

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For one and the world : a novel
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Year: 1889 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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The dream-Charlotte : a story of echoes
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Year: 1896 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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The painting of the ways : a novel
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Year: 1888 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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The curb of honour
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Year: 1893 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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Exchange no robbery and other novelettes
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Year: 1882 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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France of to-day : a survey comprative and retrospective (second series)
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Year: 1892 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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Two aunts and a nephew
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Year: 1892 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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East of Paris : sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais and Champagne
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Year: 1902 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,

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