Frances Winwar

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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 Grabanir, 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 19th 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]

Inn the 1930s and 1940s, Winwar was an outspoken opponent of Italian Fascism.^[1]

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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 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

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 >Wepman, Dennis (2010). "Winwar, Frances". American National Biography Online:. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
↑ "Frances Winwar Wed To Richard W. Webb; Novelist and Mystery Writer Married in Rahway, N. J.". The New York Times. May 22, 1943.
↑ "Frances Winwar". LibraryThing. 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2012.

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Name	Winwar, Frances
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Date of birth	3 May 1900
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Date of death	24 July 1985
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