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D'Anvers, N

Pseudonym of author and translator Nancy Regina Emily Meugens (1844-1933), who clocked her Belgian ancestry ["Nancy from Antwerp"] through the name she chose for all her translations of novels by Jules Verne. In her own right, as by Mrs A G Bell or Mrs Arthur Bell, she was the author of several popularizing guides to Western art and individual artists, the best known of these being James McNeill Whistler (1904) because he disapproved of her. She wrote no fiction. [JC]

Nancy Regina Emily Meugens

born Lambeth, Surrey [now London]: 2 September 1844

died Southbourne-on-Sea, Hampshire: 30 August 1933

works as translator (selected)

• Jules Verne. A Floating City and the Blockade Runners (London: Sampson Low, 1874) [coll: trans of "Une Ville flottante" suivi de "Les Forceurs de blocus" (1871): hb/]
• Jules Verne. The Fur Country; or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (London: Sampson Low, 1873) [trans of Le Pays des fourrures (1873): hb/]

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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