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
editShe 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
editAuthor
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.