Henriette Devonshire

Henriette Caroline Devonshire, née Vulliamy, who published as Mrs. R. L. Devonshire (1864-1949) was a French translator and travel writer.[1]

Henriette Vulliamy married the English lawyer Robert Llewellyn Devonshire. They settled in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, in 1913.

K. A. C. Creswell was a friend and collaborator.

Works
  • (tr.) The life of Pasteur by René Vallery-Radot. 2 vols. London: Constable, 1902.
  • (tr.) Vols 1 and 2 of Life and Letters of H. Taine by Hippolyte Taine. Westminster: Constable, 1902-4.
  • (tr.) Flaubert by Émile Faguet. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914.
  • Rambles in Cairo, Cairo, 1917
  • Some Cairo mosques, and their founders, Cairo, 1921
  • (tr.) Relation d'un voyage du sultan Qâitbây en Palestine et en Syrie. Translated from the Arabic. Cairo, 1921.
  • Quatre-vingts mosquées et autres monuments musulmans du Caire. Guide des visiteurs, Cairo: De l'institut Français d'Archeologie Orientale, 1925.
  • L'Égypte musulmane et les fondateurs de ses monuments, Paris: Maisonneuve Frères, 1926.
  • Eighty mosques and other Islamic monuments in Cairo, Paris, 1930. Enlarged from the French edition.
  • Quelques influences islamiques sur les arts de l'Europe, Cairo: Imp. E. and R. Schindler, 1935.
  • Moslem builders of Cairo, Cairo: R. Schindler, 1943

References
  1. Israel Katz (2015). Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932). BRILL. pp. 157–8. ISBN 978-90-04-28414-2.
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