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Lucie Duff Gordon, in England, South Africa and Egypt ... With illustrations [including a portrait]

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  • ""Lucie Duff Gordon," wrote George Meredith, "was of the order of women of whom a man of many years may say that their like is to be met with but once or twice in a life-time." Lucie had none of the consummate self-confidence of her cousin, Harriet Martineau, or the enthusiasms and industry of Sarah Austin. She had instead a quality -- an attitude to life -- which makes her a member of the twentieth rather than of the nineteenth century. Born in 1821, the year of Napoleon's death, she was brought up in much the same atmosphere of disillusionment and change after a long period of warfare as those born a century later. She was not trammelled by Victorian conventions and disliked all pose and snobbery. She was a passionate defender of all whom she considered to be treated unjustly, and, when she could, gave them practical help; "against the cruelty of despotic rulers and the harshness of society she was openly at war." While Lucie was by no means a product of Victoria-Albert England in which she lived, she was very much influenced by the radical and intellectual atmosphere in which she was brought up. - Introduction."

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  • "Reisebericht 1862"
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  • "Lucie Duff Gordon, in England, South Africa and Egypt ... With illustrations [including a portrait]"@en
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