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.
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
^"Person Page: Helen Florence Douglas". The Peerage. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^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".
^Malden, Henry Elliot (1967). The Victoria History of the County of Surrey. A. Constable, limited.
^Dinnis, Enid Maud; Douglas-Irvine, Helen; Vaughan, Gertrude E. M.; Young, Ruth (1917). A Scallop shell of quiet. B.H. Blackwell.
^National Archives Catalogue
^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.
^"Deaths". The Times. No. 50464. London. 29 May 1946. p. 1.
^"Dunino - Distingished Author". St Andrews Citizen. 10 August 1946. p. 6.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1936). Magdalena. New York: Macmillan. OCLC 6719234.
^Douglas Irvine, Helen (1939). Fray Mario. Toronto: Longmans. OCLC 937627538.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1940). Mirror of a dead lady. London, New York: Longmans, Green & Co. OCLC 654865996.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1941). Angelic romance. London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 7570733.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1944). Sweet is the rose. London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 63572283.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1945). ... 77 Willow road. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. OCLC 1667874.
^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.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (8 September 2013). Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (2009). History of London. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4446-1866-2.
^Douglas-Irvine, Helen (1923). The making of rural Europe. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. OCLC 6405727.
^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.
^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.