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Eugène E. (Eugène Edward) Street

d. 1913

Best known today for contributing the Portugal-focused chapters to a 1902 survey of Iberian life, this early-20th-century writer helped introduce English-language readers to everyday customs and culture in Spain and Portugal.

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Spanish Life in Town and Country

Spanish Life in Town and Country

by L. Higgin, Eugène E. (Eugène Edward) Street

About the author

Very little biographical information about Eugène E. Street appears to be widely documented online beyond library and catalog records. Those records consistently identify him as Eugène E. (Eugène Edward) Street and note that he died in 1913.

Street is chiefly associated with Spanish Life in Town and Country (1902), a volume credited primarily to L. Higgin and published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Catalog entries and digitized editions note that Street contributed the sections on Portuguese life in town and country, suggesting he wrote as an informed observer of everyday culture and social customs rather than as a novelist.

Because reliable sources uncovered here focus almost entirely on his published work, many personal details about his life remain unclear. Even so, his contribution survives as part of a period effort to explain the character of European countries to English-speaking readers through travel writing, cultural description, and social commentary.