Henriette Devonshire

Henriette Caroline Devonshire, née Vulliamy, who published as Mrs. R. L. Devonshire (1864-1949) was a French translator and travel writer.^[1]

Henriette Vulliamy married the English lawyer Robert Llewellyn Devonshire. They settled in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, in 1913.

K. A. C. Creswell was a friend and collaborator.

Works edit

(tr.) The life of Pasteur by René Vallery-Radot. 2 vols. London: Constable, 1902.
(tr.) Vols 1 and 2 of Life and Letters of H. Taine by Hippolyte Taine. Westminster: Constable, 1902-4.
(tr.) Flaubert by Émile Faguet. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914.
Rambles in Cairo, Cairo, 1917
Some Cairo mosques, and their founders, Cairo, 1921
(tr.) Relation d'un voyage du sultan Qâitbây en Palestine et en Syrie. Translated from the Arabic. Cairo, 1921.
Quatre-vingts mosquées et autres monuments musulmans du Caire. Guide des visiteurs, Cairo: De l'institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale, 1925.
L'Égypte musulmane et les fondateurs de ses monuments, Paris: Maisonneuve Frères, 1926.
Eighty mosques and other Islamic monuments in Cairo, Paris, 1930. Enlarged from the French edition.
Quelques influences islamiques sur les arts de l'Europe, Cairo: Imp. E. and R. Schindler, 1935.
Moslem builders of Cairo, Cairo: R. Schindler, 1943

References edit

^ Israel Katz (2015). Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932). BRILL. pp. 157–8. ISBN 978-90-04-28414-2.

External links edit

The indomitable Mrs. Devonshire
Terry Allen, A Bookplate of Henriette Caroline Devonshire

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[Katz2015-1] Israel Katz (2015). Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932). BRILL. pp. 157–8. ISBN 978-90-04-28414-2.

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