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Nom légal: Beck, Elizabeth Louisa Moresby Hodgkinson Adams
Autres noms: Moresby, Louis
Barrington, E.
Beck, Lily Adams
Beck, Elizabeth Louisa
Beck, Eliza Louisa Moresby
Adams, Lily Moresby
Date de naissance: 1862
Date de décès: 1931-01-03
Sexe: female
Nationalité: UK
Lieu de naissance: Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, UK
Lieu du décès: Kioto, Japan
Lieux de résidence: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Relations: Moresby, John (father)
Courte biographie: Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby was born on 1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, UK, the second child of Irish Jane Willis (Scott) and English John Moresby, a Royal Navy Captain who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. She had a eldest brother Walter Halliday, and four youngest sisters Ethel Fortescue, Georgina, Hilda Fairfax and Gladys Moresby. Due to he father's work and her marriage to a Royal Navy commander Edward Western Hodgkinson, she lived and traveled widely in the East, in Egypt, India, China, Tibet, and Japan. Asian culture would greatly influence her and became a staunch Buddhist. She collabored in the writing of her father's book. Two Admirals: Sir John Moresby and John Moresby (1909).

After widowing arund 1910, she remarried in 1912 to retired solicitor Ralph Coker Adams Beck. In 1919, the marriage visit Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she settled alone eventually. Surrounded by her Oriental art and Oriental servants, she entertained fortnightly at her home on Mountjoy Avenue in Oak Bay as a strict vegetarian with ascetic inclinations.

She was 60 years old by the time she started to publishing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting. She used various pen names such as L. Adams Beck for her stories set in exotic locales, E. Barrington for popular historical romances and Louis Moresby for non-fiction.

She returned to Asia, and continued to write until her death on 3 January 1931 in Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan.
Notice de désambigüisation: Elizabeth Louisa Moresby Hodgkinson Adams Beck's books are ascribed to different pen names, depending on the edition.

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Anne Boleyn par L. Adams Beck

I will preface this by saying that I have read just about every book that I have come across about Anne Boleyn, so I may be a bit jaded. This book struck me as somewhat dull and "over-narrated." Sometimes the author conveys a real depth of feeling, and shows a fine turn of phrase. Too often though, she tells rather than shows, and clogs the narrative stream with comments on the nature of men and women, the times, etc.:

"For bliss is still below the horizon, Luther's light burns more than a little smoky and threatens extinction, and in spite of his well-aimed ink-dish (typical of much) the Devil with his supporters the World and the Flesh is still active. The Riddle of the Sphinx is answerable but not by the formulas of any century whether Luther's or another's."

The book takes a dim view of Anne, but unlike so many authors, manages to make her alluring, so that one can both see why Henry was attracted to her, and how the attraction broke down under strain. Being published in the 1930's, the book reflects earlier scholarly views of Anne: Sir Thomas Boleyn has a second wife who is Anne's stepmother. The "Semmonet" who helped her learn French was thought to be her maid or governess, Simonette; but is now thought to be Symmonet, a member of Margaret of Austria's household. The book quotes actual contemporary documents, modernized for ease of reading.… (plus d'informations)

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PuddinTame | Dec 7, 2010 |

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