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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Helen_Tracy_Lowe-PorterHelen Tracy Lowe-Porter - Wikipedia

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   Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (née Porter; June 15, 1876 – April 26, 1963) was an American translator and writer, best known for translating almost all of the works of Thomas Mann for their first publication in English.

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3. www.nytimes.com › mrs-lowe-porter-jo-salasThe Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator - The New York Times

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   Jan 30, 2024 · Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself.

4. www.literaryladiesguide.com › literary-musingsImagining Helen: The Life of Translator Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter

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   Sep 8, 2020 · A diiscovery of the life of Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (1876 – 1963), the sole translator of Thomas Mann from German to English. Literary Ladies Guide An archive dedicated to classic women authors and their work

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   Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (June 15, 1876/1877, Towanda, Pennsylvania – died April 26, 1963, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American translator, most well known for her pioneering translations of the works of Thomas Mann. Helen Tracy Porter was the daughter of Clara (née Holcombe) and Henry Clinton Porter.

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   (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times) by Celia McGee. NEW YORK, NY.- Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself.

7. hudsonvalleyone.com › 2024/02/13 › local-author-joLocal author Jo Salas unearths Mann’s translator in new novel

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   Feb 13, 2024 · The decades and the critics have not been kind to the memory of Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, the Pennsylvania-born translator of most of the works of Thomas Mann into English: 22 books over a period of 36 years, for publisher Alfred A Knopf.

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   Was Helen Lowe-Porter a man?

   • For many readers of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann, her obituary in 1963 was the first inkling that she wasn’t a man. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself.

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   Who was Helen Tracy Porter?

   • Helen Tracy Porter was the daughter of Clara ( née Holcombe) and Henry Clinton Porter. She was the niece of Charlotte Endymion Porter, editor of Poet Lore, a poetry journal, and an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabeth and Robert Browning. She married the paleographer Elias Avery Lowe in 1911.

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   Who was Tracy Lowe?

   • A significant amount of the research material for Salas’s novel came from Tracy Lowe, who amassed files of letters, newspaper clippings, old photographs and other records for a dual biography of her parents, which she left in rough draft when she died. “She was a real daddy’s girl,” Salas said of Tracy Lowe.

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   Who was Elias Lowe?

   • Salas felt the unfinished biography unfairly favored Lowe-Porter’s husband, Elias Lowe, whose vaguely Freudian justifications for extramarital affairs his wife accepted, as Salas learned from Tracy Lowe, until he confessed to a relationship with one of their eldest daughter’s friends. Packing her Gladstone bag, Lowe-Porter went to live elsewhere.

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9. www.pressreader.com › usa › marin-independentThe secret of Thomas Mann's translator - PressReader

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   Feb 4, 2024 · The secret of Thomas Mann's translator. 2024-02-04 - By Celia McGee. Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself. An American married to a rising paleograph­y scholar at Oxford, Lowe-Porter was raising three daughters and helping ...