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Elizabeth Gilbert Martin
b. 1837
Best known as a translator who brought popular French historical works to English readers, she also left a personal portrait of the painter Homer Dodge Martin in a memoir written after his death.
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Homer Martin, a Reminiscence, October 28, 1836-February 12, 1897
by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin
About the author
Elizabeth Gilbert Martin was a 19th-century writer and translator, born in 1837. Records of her work show that she translated a number of books by Imbert de Saint-Amand, helping English-speaking readers discover lively accounts of French court life and figures such as Marie Antoinette and Marie Louise.
She is also remembered for Homer Martin, a Reminiscence (1904), a short memoir about the American painter Homer Dodge Martin. In that book she writes with the closeness of someone who knew him deeply, and Project Gutenberg describes the work as a personal account by his wife, Elizabeth Gilbert Martin.
Some details of her own life are still hard to confirm from easily available sources, including her death date. Even so, the surviving bibliographic record shows a writer with a clear literary role: a careful translator, a memoirist, and a quiet link between American cultural life and French historical writing.