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AGNES MARY F DUCLAUX

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGNES See also:MARY F See also:DUCLAUX  . (1856– ), See also:English poet and critic, who first became known in See also:England under her See also:maiden name of See also:Mary F . See also:Robinson, was See also:born at See also:Leamington on the 27th of See also:February 1856 . She was educated at University See also:College, See also:London, devoting herself chiefly to the study of See also:Greek literature . Her first See also:volume of See also:poetry, A Handful of See also:Honeysuckle, was published in 1879 . Her next See also:work was a See also:translation from See also:Euripides, The Crowned See also:Hippolytus (1881) . Monographs on Emily See also:Bronte (1883) and on See also:Marguerite of See also:Angouleme (1886) followed; and The New See also:Arcadia and other Poems (1884) and An See also:Italian See also:Garden (1886) contain some of her best verses . Her poems attracted the See also:attention of the orientalist, See also:James See also:Darmesteter (q.v.), then in Peshawur, and he made an admirable translation of them in . See also:French . The acquaintance led to their See also:marriage in 1888, and from that See also:time a large See also:part of her work was done in French . Madame Darmesteter translated her See also:husband's Etudes anglaises into English (1896): Her most considerable See also:prose work is the See also:Life of Ernest See also:Renan (1897) . She also wrote the End of the See also:Middle Ages (1888); the volume on See also:Froissart (1894) in the Grands ecrivains See also:francais; essays on the Brontes, the Brownings and others, entitled Grands ecrivains d'Outre-See also:Manche (1901) .

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death, she married in 1901 Emile See also:Duclaux, the See also:associate of See also:Pasteur, and director of the Pasteur See also: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 .

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