DUCLAUX, AGNES MARY FRANCES (1857— ), English poet and critic (née Robinson), was born at Leamington on Feb. 27, 1857. In 1888 she married James Darmesteter (q.v.), and in 1901, after his death, Emile Duclaux, director of the Pasteur institute. She published several volumes of poetry, includ ing A Handful of Honeysuckle (1879) ; The New Arcadia and other Poems (1884) ; An Italian Garden (1886) ; Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative (1902), and The Return to Nature, Songs and Symbols (1904) .
Madame Duclaux's best known prose works are a monograph on Emily Bronte (1883) ; the Life of Ernest Renan (1897) ; The End of the Middle Ages (1888) ; "Froissart" (1894) in the Grands ecrivains f rancais; Vie d'Emile Duclaux (19o7) ; Madame de Sevigne (1914) ; La Pensee de Robert Browning (1922) and A Portrait of Pascal (1926).