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DUCLAUX, AGNES MARY F

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DUCLAUX, See also:AGNES See also:MARY F . (1856– ), See also:English poet and critic, who first became known in See also:England under her See also:maiden name of Mary F. See also:Robinson, was See also:born at See also:Leamington on the 27th of See also:February 1856. She was educated at University See also:College, See also:London, devoting herself chiefly to the study of See also:Greek literature. Her first See also:volume of See also:poetry, A Handful of See also:Honeysuckle, was published in 1879. Her next See also:work was a See also:translation from See also:Euripides, The Crowned See also:Hippolytus (1881). Monographs on Emily See also:Bronte (1883) and on See also:Marguerite of See also:Angouleme (1886) followed; and The New See also:Arcadia and other Poems (1884) and An See also:Italian See also:Garden (1886) contain some of her best verses. Her poems attracted the See also:attention of the orientalist, See also:James See also:Darmesteter (q.v.), then in Peshawur, and he made an admirable translation of them in. See also:French. The acquaintance led to their See also:marriage in 1888, and from that See also:time a large See also:part of her work was done in French. Madame Darmesteter translated her See also:husband's Etudes anglaises into English (1896): Her most considerable See also:prose work is the See also:Life of Ernest See also:Renan (1897). She also wrote the End of the See also:Middle Ages (1888); the volume on See also:Froissart (1894) in the Grands ecrivains See also:francais; essays on the Brontes, the Brownings and others, entitled Grands ecrivains d'Outre-See also:Manche (1901).

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death, she married in 1901 Emile Duclaux, the See also:associate of See also:Pasteur, and director of the Pasteur See also:institute. He died in 1904. She published Retrospect and other Poems in 1893, and in 1904 appeared The Return to Nature, Songs and Symbols. The qualities of Mary Robinson's work, its conciseness and purity of expression, were only gradually recognized. Her Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative were published in 1902.

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