Helen Douglas Irvine

Helen Douglas-Irvine

Helen Douglas Irvine (born Helen Florence Douglas-Irvine; 29 February 1880 – 22 May 1946) was a Scottish novelist, historian and translator and was one of the Douglases of Grangemuir.

Early life and education

Helen Florence Douglas-Irvine was born in 1880, the daughter of Walter Douglas-Irvine and Anne Frances (née Lloyd), granddaughter of Lord William Robert Keith Douglas (the younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry).[1]

She was one of the first female graduates of St Andrews University[2] having read History, near her family home Grangemuir, near Pittenweem in Fife.

Career

Douglas-Irvine wrote seven novels, four books of history, and at least two book-length translations. She was also a contributing author to the Victoria County History book series,[3] and contributed poetry to the collection A Scallopshell of Quiet (1917).[4] She was a clerk with the French Red Cross during World War I.[5]

Death

Douglas Irvine died on 22 May 1946 from pneumonia in Chile, while researching a book on early Spanish colonial life.[6][7] She was 66 years old. Her grave is in Dunino, Fife.[8]

Works

Novels

  • Magdalena (1936)[9]
  • Fray Mario (1939)[10]
  • Mirror of a Dead Lady (1940)[11]
  • Angelic Romance (1941)[12]
  • Sweet is the Rose (1944)[13]
  • 77 Willow Road (1945)[14]
  • Torchlight Procession (1946)[15]

Historical writing

  • Royal Palaces of Scotland (1911)[16]
  • Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England (1912)[17]
  • History of London (1912)[18]
  • The Making of Rural Europe (1923)[19]

Translations

  • (with W.D. MacInnes), Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, A History of English Literature (1926)[20]
  • (with Charlotte Balfour), Saint Catherine of Genoa, Treatise on Purgatory (1946)[21]

References

  1. ^ "Person Page: Helen Florence Douglas". The Peerage. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. ^ The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, 17 December 1908. Helen Douglas Irvine MA (St Andrews), "The Case for the Scottish Graduates".
  3. ^ Malden, Henry Elliot (1967). The Victoria History of the County of Surrey. A. Constable, limited.
  4. ^ Dinnis, Enid Maud; Douglas-Irvine, Helen; Vaughan, Gertrude E. M.; Young, Ruth (1917). A Scallop shell of quiet. B.H. Blackwell.
  5. ^ National Archives Catalogue
  6. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1928). "The Landholding System of Colonial Chile". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 8 (4): 449–495. doi:10.1215/00182168-8.4.449. ISSN 0018-2168. OCLC 5548604508.
  7. ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 50464. London. 29 May 1946. p. 1.
  8. ^ "Dunino - Distingished Author". St Andrews Citizen. 10 August 1946. p. 6.
  9. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1936). Magdalena. New York: Macmillan. OCLC 6719234.
  10. ^ Douglas Irvine, Helen (1939). Fray Mario. Toronto: Longmans. OCLC 937627538.
  11. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1940). Mirror of a dead lady. London, New York: Longmans, Green & Co. OCLC 654865996.
  12. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1941). Angelic romance. London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 7570733.
  13. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1944). Sweet is the rose. London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 63572283.
  14. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1945). ... 77 Willow road. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. OCLC 1667874.
  15. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1946). Torchlight procession. London; Toronto: Longmans, Green. OCLC 952638097.
  16. ^ DOUGLAS-IRVINE, HELEN (2016). Royal palaces of scotland (classic reprint). Place of publication not identified: FORGOTTEN Books. ISBN 978-1-334-05859-2. OCLC 983112619.
  17. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (8 September 2013). Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England.
  18. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (2009). History of London. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4446-1866-2.
  19. ^ Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1923). The making of rural Europe. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. OCLC 6405727.
  20. ^ Legouis, Emile; Cazamian, Louis François (1971). A history of English literature The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660). London: Dent. ISBN 9780460035835. OCLC 1037856909.
  21. ^ Catherine; Vernazza, Battistina; Balfour, Charlotte; Douglas Irvine, Helen (1946). Treatise on purgatory / The dialogue / Battista Vernazza ; translated [with an introduction] by Charlotte Balfour and Helen Douglas Irvine. London: Sheed and Ward. OCLC 779095531.


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