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Name
  
Elizabeth Latimer


Role
  
Writer

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

Died
  
1904, Balti, Maryland, United States

Books
  
Russia and Turkey in the ninete, Europe In Africa In The Ninet, Our Cousin Veronica: Or - Scene, Our Cousin Veronica; Or - Scene, France in the Nineteent

France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley LATIMER Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book


Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (July 26, 1822, London – January 4, 1904) was an English-American writer, both of original works and translations.

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Early life

She was the daughter of Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley (1785–1852) and Caroline (née Preble) Wormeley (1799–1872). Her father, a native of Virginia, was an Admiral of the British navy, and preceding his death, resided in Boston, Massachusetts. He maternal grandfather was Sir John Randolph, attorney general for the Colony of Virginia. Her mother was a niece of Commodore Edward Preble, U.S. Navy.

Her sisters were Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the translator, and Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis (1834–1922), a writer who published the comedy entitled The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76 in 1870, which has been acted in public and private both in the United States and in Europe. Ariana was married to prominent banker and patron of the arts, Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825–1908).

Education and career

She was educated by tutors and at a school in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Early travels also helped educate her.

She spent the winter of 1842 in Boston as the guest of the family of George Ticknor, and in that environment received much encouragement of her interest in literature.

The daughter resided several years in Newport, Rhode Island, and in 1856, after gaining a reputation as a writer. After spending several years raising her children, she began writing again in 1876.

Personal life

Around 1856, she married Randolph Brandt Latimer (1821–1903) of Baltimore. From 1856 to 1876, she devoted herself to raising a family, including:

  • Caroline Wormeley Latimer (1859–1933), a Doctor in Boston.
  • Ralph Randolph Latimer (1862–1931)
  • James Brandt Latimer (1865–1926), who worked for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and who married Anne Wise Mayo (1879–1955)

    • Latimer died on January 4, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Work

    She contributed to magazines, and published:

  • Forest Hill: a Tale of Social Life in 1830-1 (3 vols., London, 1846)
  • Amabel, a Family History, a novel (New York, 1853)
  • Our Cousin Veronica (1856)
  • Familiar Talks on Some of Shakespeare's Comedies (Boston, 1887)

    • A number of her works were volumes dealing popularly with contemporary European history:

  • France in the Nineteenth Century (1892) Further books followed this one on Russia, Turkey, England, Europeans in Africa and Spain.
  • Italy in the Nineteenth Century and the Making of Austro-Hungary and Germany (1896)
  • My Scrap Book of the French Revolution (1898)
  • Judea from Cyrus to Titus; 537 B.C. - 70 A.D. (1899)
  • The Last Years of the Nineteenth Century (1900)

    • She translated:

  • Louis Ulbach, Madame Gosselin (New York, 1878)
  • Louis Ulbach, The Steel Hammer (originally Le Marteau d'acier; 1888)
  • Louis Ulbach, For Fifteen Years, a sequel to The Steel Hammer (originally Quinze ans de bagne; 1888)
  • Ernest Renan, A History of the People of Israel (with J. H. Allen; 1888–96)
  • George Sand, Nanon (1890)
  • J. C. L. de Sismondi, The Italian Republics (1901)
  • The Love Letters of Victor Hugo, 1820-22 (1901)
  • Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud (1903)

    • References

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