Lady Dilke (1840–1904)
Auteur de The Outcast Spirit: And Other Stories
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Œuvres de Lady Dilke
The Shrine of Death and The Shrine of Love 2 exemplaires
The shrine of love and other stories 1 exemplaire
The Shrine of Death, and other stories 1 exemplaire
Claude Lorrain, sa vie et ses Oeuvres 1 exemplaire
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- Autres noms
- Pattison, Mrs. Mark (married)
Pattison, E.F.S.
Strong, Emilia Francis (birth name) - Date de naissance
- 1840-09-02
- Date de décès
- 1904-10-23
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Ilfracombe, Devon, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Woking, Surrey, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Iffley, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Études
- South Kensington School of Art
governesses - Professions
- art historian
suffragist
feminist
trade unionist
essayist
art critic (tout afficher 7)
short story writer - Relations
- Tuckwell, Gertrude M. (niece)
Dilke, Charles Wentworth (2nd husband)
Müntz, Eugène (friend)
Pattison, Mark (1st husband) - Organisations
- Women's Trade Union League (president)
- Courte biographie
- Emilia Francis Strong was born to a well-to-do and religious banker and his wife. She was known in her youth by her masculine-sounding middle name. She was raised in Iffley, near Oxford, and educated by governesses before going to London at age 18 to study at the South Kensington School of Art. Among her literary and artistic circle were George Eliot and Edward Burne-Jones. In 1861, she married Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 27 years her senior. She began writing Arthurian legend-style stories, published under the names Francis Pattison, Mrs. Mark Pattison, or E.F.S. Pattison. She supported the right to vote and higher education for women. In 1875, she renewed her acquaintance with Sir Charles Dilke, a member of the radical wing of the Liberal Party, who had been an art student with her. The couple were married after Pattison's death in 1884, and she was subsequently known as Lady Dilke or Emilia Dilke. She wrote art criticism for British and French publications such as The Academy, and in 1873 became its longtime art editor. She was a lifelong friend of art historian Eugène Müntz, director of the Bibliothèque de l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She wrote books on art history such as Art in the Modern State (1888), essays on French politics and on women's trade unionism, and two volumes of short stories. She was a member of the Women's Trade Union League from its founding, and served as its president for many years. Gertrude M. Tuckwell, her niece, worked as her secretary and was involved with her in feminist and trade union activities.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 39
- Popularité
- #376,657
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 2
The actual stories have a deliberately archaic style. There’s occasionally a concrete setting, like France, but sometimes it’s just a vaguely medieval Europe. The characters are never named–they’re referred to as “the woman”, “the mother”, “the king” etc. A common plot found in several of the stories is a character seeking some sort of insubstantial concept: Love, Death or Learning. The character often has to go on a journey and sometimes fails to find the object of their desire but other times acquires it after much hardship. A few stories have what seems like a medieval Christianity or supernatural elements. The stories are very much open to interpretation and occasionally mirror elements in the author’s life. The intro noted her disillusionment with institutions of higher learning (many doors were closed to her as a woman, even with her position as Pattinson’s wife), which may be reflected in “A Vision of Learning”. “The Physician’s Wife” is about a highly regarded doctor who marries a much younger woman and is a controlling husband; their relationship is threatened by the arrival of a younger man. There are unsatisfied wives and mothers, girls who persist in the face of insurmountable odds and women who are trapped in one way or another. But regardless of the hidden meanings or relationship to Lady Dilke’s biography, I found them enjoyable, compelling and certainly odd and would recommend them for anyone interested in stories off the beaten path.… (plus d'informations)