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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie (25 May 18557 November 1905), before her marriage Lady Florence Douglas, was a British traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist. ==Early life== Born in Scotland at Cummertrees, Dumfries, Lady Florence Douglas was the daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry and his wife Caroline, daughter of General Sir William Clayton, 5th Baronet (1786–1866), Member of Parliament for Great Marlow.〔''DIXIE, Lady Florence, poet, novelist, writer; explorer and a keen champion of Woman's Rights'' in ''Who Was Who'' online at (7345683 ) at xreferplus.com (subscription required), accessed 11 March 2008〕 She had a twin brother, Lord James Douglas (d. 1891), an older sister, Lady Gertrude Douglas (1842–1893), and three older brothers: John, Viscount Drunlanrig (1844–1900), later the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, who gave his name to the rules of boxing and who brought down Oscar Wilde; Lord Francis Douglas (1847–1865), who died in a climbing accident on the Matterhorn; and Lord Archibald Douglas (1850–1938), who became a clergyman.〔G.E. Cokayne ''et al.'', eds., ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new edition, 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; new edition, 2000), volume X, page 694〕〔(Lady Florence Dixie ) at spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)〕 In 1860, Lady Florence's father died in what was reported as a shooting accident, but was widely believed to have been suicide.〔 In 1862 his widow converted herself and her youngest children, Florence and her brother James, to Roman Catholicism and took them to live in Paris for two years. This led the children's guardians to threaten Lady Queensberry with the loss of her children, a real possibility at a time when women's rights were very limited. In later life, Lady Florence campaigned on such injustices, highlighted in her book ''The Story of Ijarn'' (1903).〔Middleton, Dorothy, "Dixie (Douglas ), Florence Caroline, Lady Dixie (1855–1905)" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004〕 Lady Florence was educated at home and, after returning from Paris, in a convent school. She hated the school's repressiveness and the dogmatism of its religious teaching and took to writing poetry. Her childhood verses were published in 1902 as ''Songs of a Child'', under the pseudonym 'Darling'.〔 From an early age, Lady Florence showed a love of sport and travel and a gift for writing.〔() online at the web site of the National Portrait Gallery npg.org.uk (accessed 8 March 2008)〕 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「Florence Dixie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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