Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux
Anglo-French writer (1857-1944)
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944), born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Quotes
edit- We cannot all be great poets; but the humblest, if they be sincere, may give a genuine pleasure.
- Preface, The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. viii.
- You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?
A stranger hither? So am I,
And (sooth to say) I wonder why
We either of us came!- "To a Dragon-fly", in The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. 70.
