Emma Gurney Salter
Emma Gurney Salter (1875–1967) was an English historian and translator who wrote especially on Renaissance history and art and introduced several texts connected with Francis of Assisi to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Life
[edit]She was the daughter of William Henry Gurney Salter, who was official shorthand writer to the Houses of Parliament.[1]
She attended Notting Hill and Ealing High School from 1886 and then took the Classics tripos at Girton College, Cambridge.[2][3] With the University of Cambridge not awarding degrees to women at that time, she received her M.A. and her D.Litt. from Trinity College, Dublin.[4]
Select works
[edit]Author
[edit]- Franciscan Legends in Italian Art (1905)
- Nature in Italian Art (1912)[5]
- Tudor England through Venetian Eyes (1930)[6]
Translator
[edit]- The Legend of St Francis by the Three Companions (1902)
- The Life of St Francis by Bonaventure (1904)[7]
- The Coming of the Friars Minor to England and Germany by Thomas of Eccleston and Jordan of Giano (1926)[8]
- The Vision of God by Nicolaus of Cusa (1928)[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "40 Years of Note-Taking". The Glasgow Herald. 24 December 1928. p. 8.
- ^ Martin, Jane (2022-01-02). Gender and Education in England since 1770: A Social and Cultural History. Springer Nature. p. 81. ISBN 978-3-030-79746-1.
- ^ Sayers, Jane E. (1973). The Fountain Unsealed: A History of the Notting Hill and Ealing High School. pp. 75–6.
- ^ Kamm, Josephine (2013-10-16). Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of the Girls' Public Day School Trust. Routledge. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-134-53167-7.
- ^ Salter, Emma Gurney (1912). Nature in Italian Art: A Study of Landscape Backgrounds, from Giotto to Tintoretto. A. & C. Black.
- ^ Salter, Emma Gurney (1930). Tudor England Through Venetian Eyes. Williams & Norgate Limited. ISBN 978-0-598-66197-5.
- ^ Bonaventure (Cardinal), Saint (1904). The Life of Saint Francis. (Translation ... by Miss E. Gurney Salter.). London.
- ^ Salter, Emma Gurney (1926). The Coming of the Friars Minor to England & Germany: Being the Chronicles of Brother Thomas of Eccleston and Brother Jordan of Giano. Translated from the critical editions of A. G. Little & H. Boehmer, by E. Gurney Salter. Dent.
- ^ Cusa.), Nicolaus (de (1928). The vision of God: Translated by Emma Gurney Salter with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill. J. M. Dent & Sons, E. P. Dutton & Company.