AGNES

See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY F

See also:

• AGNES MARY F DUCLAUX

DUCLAUX  . (1856– ), English poet and critic, who first became known in England under her maiden name of Mary F . Robinson, was born at Leamington on the 27th of February 1856 . She was educated at University College, London, devoting herself chiefly to the study of Greek literature . Her first volume of poetry, A Handful of Honeysuckle, was published in 1879 . Her next work was a translation from Euripides, The Crowned Hippolytus (1881) . Monographs on Emily Bronte (1883) and on Marguerite of Angouleme (1886) followed; and The New Arcadia and other Poems (1884) and An Italian Garden (1886) contain some of her best verses . Her poems attracted the attention of the orientalist, James Darmesteter (q.v.), then in Peshawur, and he made an admirable translation of them in . French . The acquaintance led to their marriage in 1888, and from that time a large part of her work was done in French . Madame Darmesteter translated her husband's Etudes anglaises into English (1896): Her most considerable prose work is the Life of Ernest Renan (1897) . She also wrote the End of the Middle Ages (1888); the volume on Froissart (1894) in the Grands ecrivains francais; essays on the Brontes, the Brownings and others, entitled Grands ecrivains d'Outre-Manche (1901) .

After Darmesteter's

death, she married in 1901 Emile Duclaux, the associate of Pasteur, and director of the Pasteur institute . He died in 1904 . She published Retrospect and other Poems in 1893, and in 1904 appeared The Return to Nature, Songs and Symbols . The qualities of Mary Robinson's work, its conciseness and purity of expression, were only gradually recognized . Her Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative were published in 1902 .