Matilda Betham-Edwards

Mat ( h) ilda Barbara Betham -Edwards (* 1836 in Westerfield, Suffolk, † 1919 in Hastings ) was an English travel writer and author of short stories.

Betham -Edwards was of Huguenot descent, was born into a clerical family and began at an early age her writing career. Charles Dickens published her first poem The golden lee in All the Year round. Her novels The white house by the sea ( 1857) and Doctor Jacob (1864 ) and Kitty ( 1869) have been translated into several languages. Among other writings she also has A year in Western France (1875 ), France of to-day ( 2 volumes, 1892), written and French tour guides.

Then she wrote back stories, such as Curb of honor (1893 ), A romance of Dijon ( 1894), For one and the world (1896 ), A storment sky (1898), Reminiscences (1898), Mock beggar 's wall (1902 ) and A humble lover (1903 ). 1908 received Betham -Edwards in recognition of her tireless work for mutual understanding between Britain and France a medal on the English- French exhibition. Even before they had been appointed by the French government to Officier de l' Instruction Publique de France.

Mathilda Betham -Edwards died in 1919 in Hastings.

Homonym

Mathilda Betham -Edwards is sometimes with the Englishwoman Mat ( h) ilda Betham confused, who lived from 1776 to 1852 and wrote poems, and wrote the long poem Lay of Marie, the treated Marie de France.