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Helen Waddell

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

May 31, 1889

Died

March 05, 1965

Genre

Literature, Drama, Fiction

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Helen Jane Waddell was an Irish poet, translator and playwright.

She was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent the first eleven years of her life in Japan before her family returned to Belfast. Her mother died shortly afterwards, and her father remarried. Hugh Waddell himself died and left his younger children in the care of their stepmother. Following the marriage of her elder sister Meg, Helen was left at home to care for Mrs Waddell, whose health was deteriorating.

Waddell was educated at Victoria College for Girls and Queen's University Belfast, where she studied under Professor Gregory Smith, graduating in 1911. She follo ...more

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	The Desert Fathers by Helen Waddell (translator), Basil Pennington (Preface) 4.11 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1628 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages 4.17 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1934 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Abelard 3.93 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1933 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mediaeval Latin Lyrics 4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1929 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beasts And Saints by Helen Waddell, Robert Gibbings (Illustrator) 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1934 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyrics from the Chinese 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1913 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs of the Wandering Scholars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Princess Splendour, and other stories 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of Medieval Latin for Schools 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1933 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spoiled Buddha: A Play in two Acts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.”
― Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers

tags: creativity, genius, solitude, soul

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“At that memory, it seemed to Gilles that he opened a door into an empty house that had been firelit once, and now was naked rafters under the sky.”
― Helen Waddell, Peter Abelard

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“There are natures doomed to be unfortunate, to find the bitter in the sweet.”
― Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages

tags: fortune

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