The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (Title page)
Title
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (Title page)
Subject
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Hearn, Lafcadio, -- 1850-1904
Buddhism
Description
Elizabeth Bisland, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (London / Boston 1911 [first ed. 1906]). Brought up in Dublin, Hearn (1850 – 1904) became a freethinker (atheist) and Buddhist sympathiser in America as well as crossing “race lines” by marrying a black woman. In Japan, he became a leading interpreter of the culture of “old Japan”, attempted to marry Buddhist and western philosophy and was given a Buddhist funeral. Bisland’s collection may have been kept on restricted access in Maynooth because of his controversial marriages to non-white women rather than because of his religious views; in Bisland’s 1911 collection of his Japanese Letters she had to defend him against racist attacks linked mostly to his
black and creole connections in the US.
black and creole connections in the US.
Creator
Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929
Source
[no text]
Publisher
London : Constable & Co.
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Date
1911
Contributor
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Rights
copyright NUIM
Relation
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Format
JPEG image
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
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Coverage
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Original Format
Paper
Text
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Files
Collection
Citation
Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929, “The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (Title page),” NUI Maynooth Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://nuimlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/30.