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Frederick Lawton
Best known for writing about French art, history, and literature, this English author spent time in France and brought subjects like Balzac and Auguste Rodin to English-speaking readers. His books have an early-20th-century curiosity about culture and place, with Paris often close at hand.
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Balzac
by Frederick Lawton
About the author
Frederick Lawton was an English author who lived in France and died in 1909. Surviving bibliographic records show him writing on French literary and cultural subjects at the start of the 20th century.
His known books include The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin, Balzac, Nooks & Corners of Old Paris, The Third French Republic, and an anthology of French poetry. He also worked as a translator, helping bring French material to English readers.
Lawton seems to have been especially drawn to the people, history, and artistic life of France. Even from the titles alone, his work suggests a writer interested in making French culture vivid and accessible rather than distant or academic.