Leila Charlotte Evelyn Petronella Buckley (16 January 1917 – 25 January 2013), née Porter, known by her pen name Frances Lobb, was an English poet, novelist and translator. She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Adrian Sydney Morton Porter

OStJ The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of c ...

, a

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, and the author Rose Henniker Heaton. Her grandfather was the postal reformer

Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet, (18 May 1848 – 8 September 1914) was a United Kingdom Member of Parliament and a postal reformer and journalist in Australia. Early life Heaton was the only son of Lieutenant Colonel John Heaton and h ...

. She married, firstly, the renowned Oxford classicist Courtenay Edward Stevens in 1938. She and Courtenay Stevens were divorced. She married, secondly, Philip Strachan Buckley in 1949. During the Second World War she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.

Works

Novels

* ''The Vow'', Book Guild, 1999 * ''The Strangers'', Art & Educational Publishers, 1947 * ''Handsome Johnnie'', Faber and Faber, 1941

Translations

Leila Buckley translated works between English, German, Italian, French, Latin and ancient Greek. She is perhaps most famous as the English translator of

Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati-Traverso (; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for '' Corriere della Sera''. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel ''The Tartar St ...

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. She translated

Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

's ''Memoirs 1942-1943'', (George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1949) into English. Other works include: * ''

The Day of the Bomb ''The Day of the Bomb'' (in German ''Sadako Will Leben'', meaning ''Sadako Wants to Live'') is a non-fiction book written by the Austrian author Karl Bruckner in 1961. The story is about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshim ...

'', Karl Bruckner, 1962 * '' Momo (novel)'',

Michael Ende Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy ''The Neverending Story'' (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television ...

, 1973, as ''The Grey Gentlemen'', Puffin Books, 1974 * ''The Golden Pharaoh'', Karl Bruckner, Burke, 1959 * ''The Twenty Four Love Sonnets'',

Louise Labé Louise Charlin Perrin Labé, ( 1524 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a feminist French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wif ...

, Euphorion, 1950 (trans. from 16th century Middle French and Italian) * ''The Prince of Mexico'',

Federica de Cesco Federica is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Federica Di Giacomo * Federica Gori * Federica Luppi * 12817 Federica (1996 FM16), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1996 * Federica Angeli (born 1975), Italian journalist * Fede ...

, Burke, 1968 * ''Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the history of national philosophy, religion and art'',

Raymond Klibansky Raymond Klibansky, (October 15, 1905 – August 5, 2005) was a German-Canadian historian of philosophy and art. Biography Born in Paris, to Rosa Scheidt and Hermann Klibansky, he was educated at the University of Kiel, University of Hamburg ...

, Erwin Panofsky & Fritz Saxl, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1964.

References

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