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Lina Duff Gordon
1874–1964
An English writer with deep ties to Italy, she brought places like Assisi and Perugia vividly to life and later became an Italian correspondent for major British newspapers. Her life also helped shape the cultural world of Florence through the library that grew into the British Institute of Florence.
3 Audiobooks
The Story of Perugia
by Lina Duff Gordon, Margaret Symonds
The Story of Assisi
by Lina Duff Gordon
The Story of Assisi
by Lina Duff Gordon
About the author
Born Caroline Lucie Duff-Gordon in 1874, she was later known as Lina Waterfield and published as Lina Duff Gordon. After a difficult childhood, she was brought up near Florence by her aunt Janet Ross, and Italy remained at the center of her life and work.
She wrote books on Italian history and place, including The Story of Assisi and, with Margaret Symonds, The Story of Perugia. She also worked as an Italian correspondent for The Observer and The Sunday Times, combining a love of culture with a journalist’s eye for politics and everyday life.
Beyond her writing, she played an important part in Anglo-Italian cultural life. She founded the library that later became the British Institute of Florence, and her legacy reaches beyond her books into the literary and artistic communities she helped sustain.