Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley (1822-1904)
 | Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer was born in London and died in Baltimore, Maryland. Her family traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States, and she was privately educated. She married Randolph Brandt Latimer in 1856, and moved with him to Baltimore, where she spent the rest of her life. Latimer is best known for her writings on contemporary European history, especially for her translations and her works focusing on the nineteenth century in various Western and Eastern European countries. Latimer was an enthusiastic member of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore from its genesis in 1890 until her death in 1904. She was often praised by the Club members for her historical and translation work. |
Salvage (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1880).
Amabel: A Family History (New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853); fiction. full-text
Our Cousin Veronica, or, Scenes and Adventures Over the Blue Bridge (New York: Bunce & Brother Publishers, 1855); fiction. full-text
"A Southern Lady of Shalott" (Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1876); fiction. full-text
"Punished Enough" (Harper's Monthly, Feb. 1878); fiction. full-text
"An English Bride in Roumania" (Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1878); fiction. full-text
My Wife and My Wife's Sister (Boston: Robers Brothers, 1881); fiction. full-text
Princess Amelie: A Fragment of Autobiography (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883); fiction. full-text
Familiar Talks on Some of Shakspeare's Comedies (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886); criticism. full-text
"The Legend of Saint Nicholas" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine 74(439), 1886); essay. full-text
George Sand, Nanon (translated from French, 1890)
"Benvenuto Cellini." Harper's Monthly (Feb. 1890)
"Saint Anthony" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1891); poem.
"St. Patrick" (Harper's Weekly, Mar. 17, 1888); poetry.
History of the People of Israel: Till the Time of King David (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888); history. full-test
"Archbishop Darboy, the Martyr of La Roquette." Catholic World (March 1893); history.
"Polyeuct and Pauline" (Harper's, Aug. 1893); poetry.
"A Girl's Recollection of Dickens" (Critici Sept. 1893)
France in the Nineteenth Century 1830-1890 (Chicago: A.C. McClung & Co., 1893); history. full-text
Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1893); history. full-text
England in the ninteenth century (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1894); history. full-text
Italy in the Nineteenth Century and the Making of Austria-Hungary and Germany (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1896); history. full-text
"British Power in Africa: Europe in Africa" (Current Literature 19(3), 1896); essay. full-text
"In Ohio a Hundred Years Ago" (Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 1898); essay. full-text
The Last Years of the Nineteenth Century: A Continuation of "France in the Nineteenth Century", "Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth century", and "Spain in the Nineteenth Century" (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901); history. full-text
Spain in the nineteenth century (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & company, 1897); history. full-text
My Scrap-book of the French Revolution (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1898); history. full-text
Judea from Cyrus to Titus: 537 B. C. to 70 A. D. (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1899). full-text
The Love Letters of Victor Hugo, 1820-1822 (New York: The New York Harper, 1901); collection. full-text
The Prince Incognito (A.C. McClurg & Company, 1902); fiction. full-text
"The Inner Life of Fra Ugo Bassi" (The Chautauquan vol. 34, p. 415, 1902); essay. full-text
Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud: together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St. Helena (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903); history. full-text
Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903); history. full-text