Brainbrigge, Marion Sophia (1849-1928)

Title

Marion Sophia Bainbrigge

Full Name

Brainbrigge, Marion Sophia (1849-1928)

Lifespan

1849-1928

Place of origin

Woolwich

London

Country of origin

England, United Kingdom

Language

English

Occupation

Author

Short biography

Born 17 December 1849 and baptised at Woolwich, 6 February 1850. In 1921 Census her sister Edith recorded her occupation as "authoress".
She died unmarried on 11 December 1928; will proved 23 January 1929 (estate £3,949).

Census 1921 compiled by her sister, Edith M. Bainbrigge

NOTABLE FRIENDSHIPS
Among the people thanked "for valuable counsel encouragement", Bainbrigge refers to prominent literate women of the early twentieth century. This include Evelyn Lillian Haseldine Carrington, Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco (1852-1931), a well-known writer on folksong. Her numerous essays on Italian, Greek and other song traditions were collected into a single volume in 1886, which was then republished in 1914 as a cheap ‘Everyman’s Library’ hardback, making it one of the most widely distributed works of folk-song scholarship in the period (Hopkin, 2018).

D. Hopkin, The Padrona of Folksongs: Biography of Evelyn Carrington, Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco (Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, 2018)

Enciclopedia Bresciana

She also thanks Gertrude Leigh, a fellow dantista and member of the London Dante Society for which she delivered a lecture in 1907. “Virgil in the Divine Comedy” (1907) was the first public outing of a thirty-year long study culminated with New Light on the youth of Dante. In 1923 she published an article on 'Links between Dante and Duns Scotus' in the Church Review. Her first monograph was titled 'The course of Dante’s life prior to 1290 traced in the Inferno cantos 3-13' (Houghton and Mifflin, 1929). Four years later, it was followed by 'The Passing of Beatrice: A study in the heterodoxy of Dante' (Faber and Faber, 1932).

(1932) The Passing of Beatrice. A study in the heterodoxy of Dante. [With special reference to the “Vita Nuova” and the “Convito.”]. Faber and Faber: London.

Review of G. Leigh's New Light on the Youth of Dante

(1930) New light on the youth of Dante: the course of Dante's life prior to 1290 traced in the Inferno cantos 3-13. Houghton Mifflin. Boston

Selected List of Publications

(1914). A walk in other worlds with Dante with eight full-page plates. London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.

A Walk into Other Worlds with Dante

Relation

Gertrude Leigh

Evelyn Lillian Haseldine Carrington, Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco