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Georgina Battiscombe

ジョージナ・バティスコム

Jōjina Battisukomu

別名: Esther Georgina Harwood

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1905-11-21 （Mayfair, London）
死没
2006-02-26 100歳
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
Oxford → Zanzibar → Durham → Windsor Castle

経歴

職業
Biographer
活動期間
1943年〜1992年
所属団体
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

学歴

St Michael's School
Oxford
国: United Kingdom
Lady Margaret Hall
国: United Kingdom

受賞歴

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1963
対象作品: John Keble
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Charlotte Mary Yonge: the Story of an Uneventful Life

1943年 Biography

Biography of Victorian romantic novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge.

Victorian era

Catherine Gladstone

1956年 Biography

Biography of Catherine Gladstone, wife of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Victorian era

John Keble

1963年 Biography

Biography of English churchman John Keble.

ReligionVictorian era

Queen Alexandra

1969年 Biography

Biography of Alexandra of Denmark.

RoyaltyDeafness

全著作

  • Two on Safari (1946)
  • English Picnics (1949)
  • Christina Rossetti (1965)
  • Shaftesbury (1974)
  • Reluctant Pioneer: The Life of Elizabeth Wordsworth (1978)
  • The Spencers of Althorp (1984)
  • Winter Song (1992)

作風・主題

文体
BiographicalVictorian focus
頻出モチーフ
RoyaltyReligious figuresDeafness

健康

  • Otosclerosis
    生涯の大部分
    Caused severe deafness for much of her life, corrected by surgery and hearing aid; gave insight into Queen Alexandra's predicament.

評価・遺産

British biographer specializing in Victorian era lives, awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize, lived to 100.

引用

  • So often the unfortunate royalties do not even receive common politeness from those who write about them.
    出典: Interview (2006年)

豆知識

  • Born Esther Georgina Harwood.
  • Had one child.
  • Lived in Windsor Castle's Henry III Tower.