Sonia E. Howe
Sonia "Sonny" Elizabeth Howe (born 1871; date of death unknown) was an Académie Française laureate Russian essayist.
Early life[edit]
Sonia Elizabeth Howe was born in 1871 in Analowo, near Saint Petersburg, the daughter of Charlotte von Mayer and Dr. Karl von Mayer, a physician and founder of the Protestant Hospital of Saint Petersburg. Her younger brother was Eduard von Mayer, the founder of Clarism.[1]
Career[edit]
Sonia E. Howe is the author of A Thousand Years of Russian History (1915), False Dmitri, a Russian romance and tragedy described by British eye-witnesses, 1604-1612 (1916), Real Russians (1917), and Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners, legendary and historical (1917) on her native country.[2]
In Odd Patterns in the Weaving (1925) she recounts her life in various parishes in England; her adventures in Gothenburg and later as a missionary in China; of her activities in connection with the relief of political exiles in Northern Russia and Siberia in pre-World War I days; and how she helped 70,000 Russians to pass through England in the autumn of 1914.[3]
In 1931 she published Les heroes du Sahara with a preface of Hubert Lyautey, translated in English as Lyautey of Morocco.[4]
Howe won for two time prizes from the Académie Française: in 1932 she won 500F for Les héros du Sahara (Prix d’Académie) and in 1937 she won 2,000F for L’Europe et Madagascar (Prix de la langue Française).[5]
In 1938 she published The drama of Madagascar.[6]
In 1946 she published Les grands navigateurs à la recherche des épices (In quest of spices), an history of the explorers who, in search of spices, discovered new worlds.[7]
In 1949 she published Plus précieux que l'or.[8]
Personal life[edit]
Sonia E. Howe married an English evangelical clergyman.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Eduard von Mayer, 1873–1960". Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Howe, Sonia E. (1917). Some Russian Heroes Saints And Sinners. J.B. Lippincott Company. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ a b "14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 37". The Spectator: 37. 1925. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series. 1933. p. 536. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ "Sonia E. HOWE". Académie française. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Howe, Sonia E (1938). The drama of Madagascar. Methuen. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Anderson, Sarah (2016). Anderson's Travel Companion: A Guide to the Best Non-Fiction and Fiction for Travelling. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 9781351958394. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ Howe, Sonia E. (1949). Plus précieux que l'or. Labor et Fides. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
