Marie Louise Egerton Castle, Comtesse de Meeus

Title: Marie Louise Egerton Castle, Comtesse de Meeus
Full Name: Meeus, Marie Louise Egerton Castle, comtesse de (
1885-1969)
Pseudonym: Marie Louise Egerton Castle
Lifespan: 1885-1969
Place of origin: London
Language: English; French; Italian
Occupation: Historian; Literary Historian; Editor; Literary critic; Biographer
Short biography: Marie Louise Egerton Castle was the daughter of Agnes Mary Frances Sweetman and Egerton Castle. They married in 1883 and co-authored many novels with her husband.

Her mother also wrote plays for children, as well as stories for magazines such as Temple Bar, Cornhill Magazine, and Macmillan. Egerton Castle M.A., F.S.A. (12 March 1858 – 16 September 1920) was an author, antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructed historical fencing, frequently in collaboration with his colleague Captain Alfred Hutton. He was born in London into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the publishing magnate and philanthropist Egerton Smith.; At the Circulating Library - List of fiction by Egerton Castle entry; At the Circulating Library - List of fiction by Agnes Sweetman; Marie Louise Egerton Castle made a ""considerable reputation"" as author of a "History of Italian Literature" and reviser of Cary's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy; on 25 October 1922, at the Brompton Oratory, she married Count Antoine de Meeûs, of Brussels.; Picture of the Wedding with Count Antoine de Meeus
Selected List of Publications: (1907). Dante. London. George Bell.; Dante; (1910) The divine comedy translated by Henry Francis Cary. Revised, with an introduction, by Marie-Louise Egerton Castle. London. Bell.; The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri Cary's translation, revised, with an introduction by Marie-Louise Egerton Castle; (1911). Italian Literature. London. George Bell and sons.; Italian literature; with Margaret Blund (1936). Happy families. London. Sheldon Press (SPCK)
Relation: Anglophone women writers