SOMERSETSHIRE

DING 2012: “Born at Westerfield, Suffolk, she resided there until 1869, when she moved to Hastings. Best remembered for her novels and travel books with a French subject matter. Some of her novels take place in her native Suffolk.”

works

The Lord of the Harvest. 1899. London: Hurst and Blackett. SC. EDD.

Mock Beggar’s Hall, A Story. 1902. London: Hurst and Blackett. SC. EDD.

A Humble Lover. 1903. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. SC.

Kingkong Project

Matilda (Barbara) BETHAM-EDWARDS (F: 1836 Mar 4 - 1919 Jan 4) (&ps: M B E; A Devious TRAVELLER)

The White House By The Sea [f|1857]

Charles And Ernest [f|1859]

Now Or Never [1859]

Ally And Her Schoolfellow [f|1861]

Little Bird Red; and, Little Bird Blue (ps: M B E) [1861]

Holidays Among The Mountains [n|1861]

Scenes And Stories Of The Rhine [n|1862]

Snow-Flakes And The Stories They Told The Children [p|1862]

John And I (anon) [f|c1865]

Lisabee's Love Story (anon) [f|c1865]

The Primrose Pilgrimage [f|1865]

The Wild Flower Of Ravensworth (anon) [f|1866]

A Winter With The Swallows [f|1867]

Doctor Jacob (anon?) [f|1868]

Dr Campany's Courtship (anon) [f|1868]

Through Spain To The Sahara [n|1868]

Kitty [f|1869]

The Sylvesters [f|1871]

Holiday Letters From Athens, Cairo, And Weimar [1873]

Mademoiselle Josephine's Fridays.. [s|1874]

Felicia [f|1875]

Minna's Holiday; Or Country Cousins.. [s|1876]

Bridget [f|1877]

A Year In Western France [n|1877]

Brother Gabriel [f|1878]

Friends Over The Water [n|1879]

8936Holidays In Eastern France [n|1879]

Forestalled [f|1880]

Six Life Studies Of Famous Women [b|1880]

The Starry Blossom.. [s|1881]

Exchange No Robbery.. [s|1883]

Pearla [f|1883]

Disarmed (anon) [f|1883/91]

Poems [p|1884/1907]

The Flower Of Doom [s|1885]

Love And Mirage [s|1885]

Half-Way [f|1886]

Next Of Kin Wanted [f|1887]

The Parting Of The Ways [f|1888]

9073The Roof Of France [f|1889]

For One And The World [f|1889]

A Dream Of Millions.. [s|1891]

A North-Country Comedy [f|1891]

A Romance Of The Wine [f|1891]

The Romance Of A French Parsonage (anon) [f|1892]

            Two Aunts And A Nephew [f|1892]

France Of To-day [2v|n|1892-94]

The Curb Of Honour [f|1893]

A Romance Of Dijon [f|1894]

The Golden Bee [1895]

The Dream-Charlotte [f|1896]

Reminiscences [a|1898/1903]

A Storm-Rent Sky [1898]

The Lord Of The Harvest [f|1899]

A Suffolk Courtship [f|1900]

Anglo-French Reminiscences, 1875-1899 [a|1900]

            Mock Beggars' Hall [f|1902]

8734East Of Paris [n|1902]

A Humble Lover [f|1903]

Barham Brocklebank, MD [f|1903]

Home Life In France [n|1905]

Martha Rose, Teacher [1906]

Literary Rambles In France [n|1907]

A Close Ring [f|1907]

French Vignettes [1909]

French Men, Women And Books [n|1910]

Unfrequented France [n|1910]

Friendly Faces Of Three Nationalities [n|1911]

9480In The Heart Of The Vosges.. (ps: A Devious TRAVELLER) [e|1911]

In French-Africa [n|1912]

From An Islington Window [f|1914]

Under The German Ban In Alsace And Lorraine [1914]

            Hearts Of Alsace [f|1916]

War Poems [p|1917]

Twentieth-Century France [n|1917]

French Fireside Poetry (ed Bernard MIALL) [p|1919]

            Mid-Victorian Memories [a|1919]

For Further Information about her life and works, see:

Grand, Sarah. 1919. “Personal Sketch”. In Matilda Betham-Edwards. Mid-Victorian Memories. New York MacMillan: vii-lxvi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Betham-Edwards

http://gerald-massey.org.uk/betham-edwards/index.htm

http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=bethma

Rees, Joan. 2007. Matilda Betham Edwards: Novelist, Travel Writer and Francophile. Hastings: Hastings Press.

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