Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield
American author
Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield (September 1, 1858 – November 15, 1918) was an American writer, historian and translator.
Biography
Blashfield was born on September 1, 1858, in Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States. Her father was egyptologist and translator Charles Edwin Wilbour and her mother was feminist, suffragist and writer Charlotte Beebe Wilbour. She had three siblings: Theodora, Victor and Zoe. She was educated at the convent school of the Sisters of Saint Mary the Virgin. She then studied at finishing schools in Florence, Italy, and in Paris, France, becoming fluent in French and Italian with knowledge of German, Arabic and Latin.
Blashfield met painter Edwin Blashfield at a dance in Paris in 1876 and they married in 1881. They lived in New York City from 1882. Together they wrote Italian Cities (1900) and translated Vasari's Lives of the Painters (4 vols., 1897) from Italian. She contributed the writing and her husband contributed the illustrations.
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