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Julia Frankau, née Julia Davis (30 July 1859〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frankau, Julia )〕-17 March 1916) was a successful novelist who wrote under the name Frank Danby. Her first novel was published in 1887: ''Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll''. Its portrayal of London Jews and Jewish life, and its discussion of euthanasia by a doctor were controversial. This was followed by more Frank Danby novels and by books on other subjects, including engraving, which were sometimes written under her own name. Frankau continued to write until the time of her death. ==Biography== Frankau's father was Hyman Davis (1824–1875), a London portrait photographer, though she and her older siblings were born in Dublin, where Davis practised as a dentist during the 1850s. On returning to London in the early 1860s, the Davis family lived first in Bruton Street before moving to Maida Vale.〔Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967", ''Jewish History'' Vol. 8 Nos 1-2, 1994 p127〕 She was a sister of the librettist Owen Hall (1853–1907) and the gossip columnist and fashion writer Mrs Aria (1861–1931). For a brief period during her early teens, she was home-tutored by Laura Lafargue, a daughter of Karl Marx.〔Mrs Aria, ''My Sentimental Self'', Chapman & Hall 1922 pp10-11〕〔Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967", ''Jewish History'' Vol. 8 Nos 1-2, 1994 pp. 127-128〕 Another of her brothers, Harrie Davis, emigrated to New York, where he was employed as manager of the Gettysburg Cyclorama and also went on to pursue a journalistic career.〔''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' 22 March 1887 p1, "A Smokestack Falls"〕〔''New-York Tribune'' 15 January 1920 p. 6, "Harrie Davis, Writer, Dead"〕〔"Frankau, Julia", at http://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p016396.htm, accessed 16 January 2013〕 She married the London cigar importer Arthur Frankau (1849–1904) in 1883.〔Todd M. Endelman, "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837-1967", ''Jewish History'' Vol. 8 Nos 1-2, 1994 p126〕 They lived first at 103 Gloucester Terrace (London W), moving to 32a Weymouth Street in the later 1880s.〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 p15〕 Two of their three sons were author Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952) and actor Ronald Frankau (1894–1951) (thus Julia Frankau is grandmother of novelist Pamela Frankau and actress Rosemary Frankau, and great-grandmother of bibliographer Timothy d'Arch Smith and scriptwriter Sam Bain), and their daughter was the Cambridge don Joan Bennett (1896–1986), one of the "constellation of critics" called by the defence in the Lady Chatterley Trial.〔Michael Squires (ed.), ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' and "À Propos of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''", Cambridge University Press 1993, Introduction pp''xxxviii-xxxix''〕 In this connection, it is interesting to note that Julia herself was credited by Mrs Belloc Lowndes with having been "one of the very few to recognise the genius of D. H. Lawrence".〔Mrs Belloc Lowndes, ''The Merry Wives of Westminster'', Macmillan 1946 p62〕 Julia's sister Florette married architect Marcus E. Collins in 1889, thus connecting the Davis and Frankau families with Arthur Collins of Drury Lane Theatre, theatrical manager Horace Collins, and stage director Frank Collins.〔Horace Collins, ''My Best Riches'', Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941 p11〕 Florette Collins published one novel in 1906, whereupon her sisters suggested she should content herself with being "the beauty of the family".〔Mrs Aria, ''My Sentimental Self'', Chapman & Hall 1922 p7〕〔Florence Collins, ''The Luddingtons: A Novel'', Heinemann 1906〕 The actor Henry Irving joined Arthur and Julia Frankau's family circle after Mrs Aria became his mistress in the 1890s.〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 pp33-34〕〔Jeffrey Richards, ''Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and his World'', Hambledon & London 2005 pp41,158〕 During the 1890s, Julia Frankau began to research and write on engraving, ultimately publishing (under her own married name) three books on the subject. Her sister Eliza recalled: "having started a small collection of eighteenth-century engravings of mezzotint and stipple, she particularly favoured the English stipple colour prints, and because no book existed telling her what she wanted to know about them, she set to work and wrote one."〔Mrs Aria, ''My Sentimental Self'', Chapman & Hall 1922 p56〕 After she returned to fiction – or, to use her own phrase, "relapsed into novel writing"〔("Frankau, Julia (1859–1916)" ). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 26 July 2011〕 – in 1902, ''The Sketch'' found "something quaint in the thought that Mrs Frankau – who, as 'Frank Danby', has recently published that brilliant study of contemporary manners (and morals), ''Pigs in Clover'' – should be, as she is without question, the greatest living authority on that daintiest product of the eighteenth century, the colour-print."〔''The Sketch'', 23 September 1903 p348〕 The commercial success of ''Pigs in Clover'', which coincided with a substantial inheritance from Arthur's late brother and business partner Edwin Frankau (1854–1903), permitted Arthur and Julia Frankau to move from Weymouth Street to 11 Clarges Street, as well as acquiring a seaside retreat named Clover Cottage (now 13 South Cliff, Eastbourne). Their Clarges Street house was said to have been occupied at one time by Emma, Lady Hamilton, thus providing inspiration for Frank Danby's ''Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton''.〔Gilbert Frankau, ''Self-Portrait'', Hutchinson 1940 pp76-77〕〔Mrs Belloc Lowndes, ''The Merry Wives of Westminster'', Macmillan 1946 p57〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julia Frankau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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