Ellen Marriage

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Ellen Marriage


Born
in Stratford, Essex, The United Kingdom
August 26, 1865

Died
December 23, 1946

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Ellen Marriage was an English translator from French, notably of Balzac's novels. She put an effort into ensuring readability and accuracy that was unusual in translators of her period.

Marriage was born in Stratford, Essex, into the Quaker family of James Haworth Marriage (1839–1913), a confectionery maker, and his wife, Mary, née Brookfield (1835–1899). All four children were sent to Quaker schools – she and her two sisters to The Mount School, York. On leaving she went to work as an invoice clerk, but she was already reading widely in English and French and doing some writing.

Marriage met the English journalist Edmund Garrett (1865–1907) while they were both patients at a Suffolk sanatorium in 1901, he with tuberculosis, she with neurasth
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