Frances Winwar
Frances Winwar (3 May 1900 – 24 July 1985), was an Italian/American biographer, translator, and fiction writer.
Winwar was born Francesca Vinciguerra in Taormina, Sicily and came to the United States through Ellis Island in June 1907.[1] Her pseudonym Winwar is an Anglicization of her birth name. Her husbands were Communist propagandist and writer Victor J. Jerome, educator Bernard Grebanier, mystery novelist Richard Wilson Webb,[2] and Dr. Francis D. Lazenby, classics scholar and librarian at the University of Notre Dame.[3]
She is best known for her series of romanticized biographies of nineteenth century English writers. She was also a frequent translator of classic Italian works into English and published several romantic novels set during historical events.[1]
In the 1930s and 1940s, Winwar was an outspoken opponent of Italian Fascism.[1]
Published works
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- (1927), The Ardent Flame, New York: Century.
- (1928), The Golden Round, New York: Century.
- (1929), Pagan Interval, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
- (1930), trans., The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacio, New York: Limited Editions Club.
- (1933), Poor Splendid Wings: The Rossettis and Their Circle, Boston: Little, Brown.
- (1935), The Romantic Rebels, Boston: Little, Brown.
- (1937), Gallows Hill, New York: Holt.
- (1938), Farewell the Banner, ..."Three Persons and One Soul"...: Coleridge, Wordsworth and Dorothy, New York: Doubleday, Doran.
- (1938), Puritan City: The Story of Salem, New York: R. M. McBride.
- (1940), Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, New York: Harper.
- (1941), American Giant: Walt Whitman and His Times, New York: Harper.
- (1943), The Sentimentalist: A Novel, New York: Harper.
- (1947), George Sand and Her Times: The Life of the Heart—A Biography, Garden City: Garden City Publishing.
- (1948), The Saint and the Devil: Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais—A Biographical Study in Good and Evil, New York: Harper.
- (1949), ed., Ruotolo, Man and Artist, New York: Liveright.
- (1950), trans., Joseph Melry and Camille de Locle, Don Carlo: Opera in Four Acts, New York: F. Rullman.
- (1951), The Immortal Lovers: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning—A Biography, New York: Harper.
- (1952), The Land of the Italian People: Illustrated from Photos, Philadelphia: Lippincott.
- (1953), The Eagle and the Rock, New York: Harper.
- (1953), Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo, [reprinted in 1967 as All about Napoleon], New York: Random House.
- (1954), The Last Love of Camille: A Novel, New York: Harper.
- (1954), Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada, New York: Random House.
- (1956), Wingless Victory: A Dual Biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Eleanore Duse, [reprinted in 1957 as Wings of Fire: A Biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Eleonore Duse], New York: Harper.
- (1957), Elizabeth, Cleveland: World.
- (1959), The Haunted Palace: A Life of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: Harper.
- (1959), Cupid, the God of Love, New York: Random House.
- (1961), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Conscience of an Era, New York: Random House.
- Joan of Arc
- Elizabeth: The Romantic Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth: A Biography
- In the Shadow of a Saint
References
- 1 2 3 >Wepman, Dennis (2010). "Winwar, Frances". American National Biography Online:. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ↑ "Frances Winwar Wed To Richard W. Webb; Novelist and Mystery Writer Married in Rahway, N. J.". The New York Times. 22 May 1943.
- ↑ "Frances Winwar". LibraryThing. 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.