Books with author Matilda Barbara Betham. Edwards

Excerpt from Holiday Letters From Athens, Cairo, and WeimarSpring. What a quiet bay it is, a very bear asleep! Untroubled grey water, pale, nu changeable sky, were all that we saw for several days. As we get farther and farther south, the sea becomes purple, the sky of a deep blue, the nights wondrously lovely with myriads of stars. There is an astronomer on board, and it is his delight to gather a few of his fellow-passengers around him, and gaze with them on Polaris, 'the sailor's friend and guide, the blue Spica, the fiery red Arcturus, Aldebaran, the poetic Pleiades, pointing out this constellation and that, and telling us much that is new and captivating. Our captain, too, like all sailors, had studied the heavens, and many a time I paced the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Holiday Letters From Athens, Cairo, and WeimarSpring. What a quiet bay it is, a very bear asleep! Untroubled grey water, pale, nu changeable sky, were all that we saw for several days. As we get farther and farther south, the sea becomes purple, the sky of a deep blue, the nights wondrously lovely with myriads of stars. There is an astronomer on board, and it is his delight to gather a few of his fellow-passengers around him, and gaze with them on Polaris, 'the sailor's friend and guide, the blue Spica, the fiery red Arcturus, Aldebaran, the poetic Pleiades, pointing out this constellation and that, and telling us much that is new and captivating. Our captain, too, like all sailors, had studied the heavens, and many a time I paced the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A Winter With the SwallowsI arrived late in December, thus escaping the miseries or diversions (for under what circumstances cannot travellers in good health and spirits amuse themselves of quarantine. But a sort of lesser quarantine awaits all those foolish travellers who embark too late to have their baggage registered; and whilst other people went off in the happy assurance that their effects would be locked up and cared for, I had to wait for permission to carry my own away, or leave them to chance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919) was an English novelist, travel writer and Francophile, and also a prolific poet. In addition she wrote several children’s books and corresponded with well-known English male poets of the day. Her first novel, The White House by the Sea (1857) was an immediate success, reprinted several times, pirated in the United States, and in print for forty years. Matilda studied French and German abroad and then settled with her sister in Suffolk to manage the farm which had belonged to her father. Not content, however, with purely rural occupations, she contributed from time to time to Household Words, having the advantage at this time of the friendship of Charles Dickens and an early association with Charles and Mary Lamb, friends of her mother. On her sister’s death, she moved to London and wrote a number of novels of French life based on her frequent visits to France and her intimate knowledge of provincial French homes, as well as children’s books, and non-fiction books about France. She was published by George and Richard Bentley. She stayed in Algeria with the feminist educationalist Barbara Bodichon and visited France and Spain with her. 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. In this way, she did much to promote a better understanding between English and French people. 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 Franco-British Exhibition (1908). Betham-Edwards is often cited in anthologies of lesbian poetry, but there is no strong evidence that she had lesbian tendencies. She died in Hastings, Sussex in 1919.