Louise Swanton-Belloc manuscript material

1824

Louise Swanton-Belloc, French translator and essayist. Among the many English authors she translated into French was her friend, Maria Edgeworth. Swanton-Belloc was on the editorial board of the famous Revue Encyclopedique for twelve years and collaborated with other important magazines, such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Magazin Pittoresque, the Musee de Familles and the Revue de Paris. La Ruche, the first journal dedicated to teaching by correspondence, was edited and published by Swanton-Belloc and her lifelong friend and collaborator, Adelaide Montgolfier. She was the French paternal grandmother of English writers Hilaire Belloc and Marie Belloc Lowndes. · To Samuel W. Reynolds, painter and printmaker : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Jul 1824 : (B'ANA 0060) : saying that she has received his Byron engraving after the portrait by Thomas Phillips, and asks if she may use it in her soon-to-be-published essay on Byron in French. Lord Byron, par Mme. Louise Sw.-Belloc, was published in Paris in 1824 by Renouard.