Beatrice Barmby
Beatrice Barmby | |
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| Born | Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 1900 (aged 31–32) |
| Relatives | John Goodwyn Barmby (father) |
Beatrice Helen Barmby (1868–1900) was an English author and poet who wrote English-language adaptations of Old Norse literature. Her works include the play Gísli súrsson: a Drama and poetry based on Laxdæla saga and The Waking of Angantýr.
Life
[edit]Barmby was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1868 to Unitarian minister John Goodwyn Barmby and his second wife Ada Marianne (née Shepherd), a suffragist.[1][2] She was disabled from childhood after a back injury.[3]
Barmby studied Icelandic with the scholar Eiríkur Magnússon and produced translations of, and poetry based on, Old Norse literature.[4][5][6] All her works were published posthumously by her sister Maria.[1] Her play based on Gísla saga, which was praised for its grasp of the Norse spirit, was read by the Viking Society in 1903 and translated into Icelandic by Matthías Jochumsson in 1902.[1][7]
Publications
[edit]- Gísli Súrsson: A Drama. Ballads and Poems of the Old Norse Days and Some Translations (1900)
- Rosslyn’s Raid and Other Tales (short story collection, 1903)
- Poems (1903)
- "The Lay of Thrym" (translation of the poem Thrymskviða, published in Saga-Book of the Viking Club 3, 1903)
- The Gods are Just. Duckworth & Company. 1904.; novel
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Katarskytė, Auksė Beatričė (2024). "The Feminist Potential of Beatrice Helen Barmby's Gísli Súrsson: A Drama". Scandinavistica Vilnensis. 17 (1): 155–175. doi:10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.9. hdl:10852/104462. ISSN 2669-0497.
- ↑ Gregory, James (2014-10-10). The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85773-619-2.
- ↑ Davidson, H. R. Ellis (2024-01-25). Katharine Briggs: Story-Teller. Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7188-9750-5.
- ↑ Gíslason, Kári; Bennett, Lisa (2024-03-01). "Creative practice as research in Old Norse-Icelandic studies: Ancillary characters as storytellers". postmedieval. 15 (1): 167–191. doi:10.1057/s41280-023-00285-z. ISSN 2040-5979.
- ↑ Wawn, Andrew (2000). The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-century Britain. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 359–61. ISBN 978-0-85991-644-8.
- ↑ Johnson, Skuli (1950). The Laxdaela Saga. p. 10.
- ↑ Wawn, Andrew (1992). "The Spirit of 1892: Sagas, Saga-steads and Victorian Philology" (PDF). Saga-Book of the Viking Society. 23: 222–249.
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- 1868 births
- 1900 deaths
- 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century English poets
- 19th-century English short story writers
- 19th-century English translators
- 19th-century English women novelists
- 19th-century English novelists
- English women dramatists and playwrights
- English women poets
- English writers with disabilities
- Icelandic–English translators
- Old Norse studies scholars
- People from Wakefield
- Poets with disabilities
- Writers from Yorkshire