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Elsie Finnimore Buckley , 1882 - 1959

Elsie Finnimore Buckley (b. August 1882, Calcutta) was a British children’s author and translator. She wrote the children’s anthology of myth Children of the Dawn in 1909, and published several translations, including The Third Republic by Raymond Recouly (1928). The daughter of a civil engineer, Buckley won a gold medal in the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Angleterre's French language and literature competition when she was sixteen. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge. She was married to writer Anthony Ludovici from 1920, and lived with him in South London.


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Wikipedia (accessed: September 16, 2022).



Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk


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Elsie Finnimore Buckley

Elsie Finnimore Buckley (b. August 1882, Calcutta) was a British children’s author and translator. She wrote the children’s anthology of myth Children of the Dawn in 1909, and published several translations, including The Third Republic by Raymond Recouly (1928). The daughter of a civil engineer, Buckley won a gold medal in the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Angleterre's French language and literature competition when she was sixteen. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge. She was married to writer Anthony Ludovici from 1920, and lived with him in South London.


Sources:

Wikipedia (accessed: September 16, 2022).



Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk


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