Edna W. Underwood (1873–1961)
Auteur de Dear Dead Women
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Œuvres de Edna W. Underwood
Famous Stories from Foreign Countries: Austrian, Armenian, Bohemian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian (1994) 3 exemplaires
Moons of Nippon, translations from poets of old Japan 2 exemplaires
Letters From A Prairie Garden copy 2 1 exemplaire
Maine Summers 1 exemplaire
Three Chinese masterpieces 1 exemplaire
Egyptian Twilights 1 exemplaire
Wine Steward 1 exemplaire
Attic Twilights 1 exemplaire
Masque of the Moons 1 exemplaire
The Penitent 1 exemplaire
Anthology of Mexican Poets 1 exemplaire
Tu Fu, Wanderer and Minstrel Under Moons of Cathay 1 exemplaire
The Taste of Honey 1 exemplaire
Improvisations volume II 1 exemplaire
Improvisations volume I 1 exemplaire
Letters From A Prairie Garden 1 exemplaire
Sister Seraphine 1 exemplaire
Letters From a Prairie Garden, 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers (Dover Thrift Editions) (2015) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Underwood, Edna Worthley
- Date de naissance
- 1873-01
- Date de décès
- 1961-06-14
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Maine, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Arkansas City, Kansas, USA - Études
- University of Michigan
Garfield University, Wichita - Professions
- poet
translator
novelist
historical novelist
essayist - Courte biographie
- Edna W. Underwood, née Worthley, was born in Maine and received little formal education as a child. The family moved to Kansas when she was 11 years old, and she began learning Latin and a dozen modern foreign languages on her own. She attended Garfield University in Wichita, but later transferred to the University of Michigan, where she received a B.A. in languages and literature in 1892. She taught in a Kansas public school for a few years, then married Earl Underwood, a jeweler. In 1912, the couple moved to New York City. Her husband traveled extensively for his business and Edna often accompanied him as interpreter. Research she conducted on these trips provided material for her fiction. She began writing poetry, plays, and screenplays, and in 1911, published A Book of Dear Dead Women, which would be her only collection of short stories; several of these weird tales have appeared in anthologies. After a volume of poetry called The Garden of Desire (1913), she turned to writing historical novels. These included The Whirlwind (1918) about Catherine the Great of Russia; The Penitent (1922), about Tsar Alexander I; The Passion Flower (1924), about Tsar Nicholas I and Alexander Pushkin. In the late 1920s, she became of the first Americans to translate Russian literature, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese poets of South America, into English; she also published translations of works from the Persian, Japanese, and Chinese. Letters from a Prairie Garden (1919) was a collection of her letters to a famous artist.
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- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 50
- Popularité
- #316,248
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 9
The introduction by the editor, S.T. Joshi, seems a bit dashed off, but in a few pages is enlightening about the late Ms. Underwood who in her time was a brilliant multilingual translator and writer. This little volume collects all her "weird" fiction for the first time. It contains a bibliography of Underwood's known published works, of all things.
A pleasant diversion, or entertainment if you will, once again beautifully produced by Tartarus Press with, of course, a lovely wood cut of an orchid on the dust jacket.
I upped my original rating by a star; I'm quite fond of this little book.… (plus d'informations)