Surname: Duff-Gordon (née Austin) Forename(s): Lucie b. 24 June 1821. d. 14 July 1869. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Travel writer, poet, and translator. Pseudonym: “L. D. G.” Née Austin. Mother of Janet
Ann Ross. Born in London. Childhood friend of John Stuart Mill. Lived in Bonn, Germany,
with her family (1827-1828) and gained fluency in German. Returned to England and
studied Greek at school. Married Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff Gordon on 16 May 1840.
Moved to South Africa and Egypt for her health (1851-1869). Author of Letters from the Cape (1864), Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865), and Last Letters from Egypt (1875). Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)