Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Carte de visite album with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
ca. 1881
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a poet, sometime diplomat, adventurer—and charismatic womanizer. After his 1869 marriage to Anne Noel, the granddaughter of the poet Lord Byron, Blunt cultivated a Byronic pose, breeding Arabian horses in England and Egypt and often dressing in Arab garb. The Gregorys met Blunt in Cairo in late 1881 and enthusiastically joined with him in the cause of the Egyptian nationalists, led by Ahmed Arabi. Lady Gregory’s first known published writing, the essay “Arabi and His Household,” appeared in The Times in October 1882 and was later published as a pamphlet. Her contributions to Blunt’s and Sir William’s many publications about the Egyptian cause were an early education for her in writing for the press.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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