Duff-Gordon, Lucie
(female)
06/24/1821 - 07/14/1869
English
Travel writer and translator; married Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff Gordon (1840); entertained Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Sydney Smith, the Carlyles, John Stuart Mill, Richard Monckton Milnes, Richard Doyle, Caroline Norton, and Tom Taylor; translated German works; wrote Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865). See Boase I: 1182, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)