Isabel Burton (1831–1896)
Autor(a) de The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Isabel Burton
Associated Works
First Footsteps in East Africa or An Exploration of Harar (1856) — Editor, algumas edições — 261 exemplares
First Footsteps in East Africa, or an Exploration of Harar (Volume Two) (1982) — Editor, algumas edições — 18 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Burton, Isabel
- Outros nomes
- Arundell, Isabel(birth)
Lady Burton (after 1886) - Data de nascimento
- 1831-03-20
- Data de falecimento
- 1896-03-21
- Localização do túmulo
- St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Africa
Trieste, Italy
Brazil
Damascus, Syria - Educação
- convent school
- Ocupações
- biographer
secretary
travel writer
traveller
autobiographer - Relações
- Burton, Richard Francis (husband)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Isabel Arundell came from an old Catholic family and was educated at the convent of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, near Chelmsford. She first met Richard Francis Burton on a school trip to Boulogne, France, in 1851, and was smitten; but as she could not win her parents' approval, she insisted on waiting 10 years to marry him. After their marriage in London in 1861, Isabel shared her husband’s world of travel and writing. She was an intelligent and resourceful woman, but was always seen in his shadow after he became one of the most famous men of the Victorian era. She served as his secretary and aide-de-camp, rode, swam, and fenced with him. Burton encouraged Isabel to write her own accounts of their travels, and she produced Inner Life of Syria (1875), and Arabia, Egypt, Malta (1879). Although he was knighted in 1886, Lady Burton considered her husband the least appreciated Englishman of his time. She was his ardent supporter and worked constantly to further his diplomatic and writing careers through the press and semi-official channels. After Burton's death in 1890, she burned his diaries and manuscripts, including his revised translation of The Perfumed Garden with extensive notes. Lacking funds, she persuaded his friends to pay for the construction of an elaborate tomb at St. Mary Magdalen’s Roman Catholic Church in Mortlake, southwest London, in the shape of a Bedouin tent, which she designed. Lady Burton wrote a two-volume biography of her husband and then her own autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1897.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 40
- Popularidade
- #370,100
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 14