Camilla Dufour

(Elizabeth) Camilla Dufour ta zama Camilla Sarratt (17?? - 1846) mawaƙiya ce 'yar Birtaniya, marubuciya kuma malamar dara.

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Dufour ta lura lokacin da mahaifinta ya yi shawarwari da mawakin tenor Michael Kelly da mawaƙiya kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Anna Maria Crouch cewa za su ba ta darasi kan wasan kwaikwayo da waƙa don samun wani kaso daga cikin albashinta. name=camilla> Ta fara yin waka a King's Theatre, Haymarket a shekarar 1796, kuma a wannan shekarar ta ci gaba da rera waƙa a Pantheon da ke Oxford Street da kuma kade-kade da babban hafsan Jamus Johann Peter Salomon ya shirya. Iyayenta sun karya wasu yarjejeniyoyi don ɗaukar kwangila mai riba a Drury Lane inda ta rera waƙa sosai, amma an lura cewa tana da gajeriyar fuska da ƙarfi kuma ba ta da ƙwarewar wasan kwaikwayo sosai. 

A shekarar 1803 ta fara rubutu. Haka ta haɗu da mijinta na gaba domin yana amfani da wannan mawallafin. An san Jacob Henry Sarratt a matsayin "Farfesa na Chess" kuma ya rubuta game da wannan wasan. Littafinta na 1803 shine "Aurora, ko, The Mysterious Beauty" wanda ba na asali ba ne amma ya dogara ne akan wani aikin Faransanci na JJM Duperche. Littafin Duperche ma ba ra'ayinsa ba ne amma an yi wahayi zuwa gare shi daga wani wasan kwaikwayo na FJH von Soden a cikin Jamusanci.  Ita da Sarratt sun yi aure a cocin St. Leonard's da ke Shoreditch a ƙarshen 1804. Ita ce matarsa ta biyu don haka ta gaji 'ya'ya biyu na aure. Sabon mijinta ya zama babban mutum a wasan chess a Landan. Zai tafi tare da abokinsa kuma za su yi wasan chess a kan juna ta hanyar tunawa da dukkan matsayi kuma ba za su taɓa amfani da kayan wasan chess ko allo ba. 

Ta rubuta amma ba ta yi ritaya daga waka ba. Ta bayyana a Astley's Amphitheatre a lokacin bazara a matsayin babbar mawaƙiya a kamfanin Astley. A lokacin hunturu ta kasance a Royalty Theatre, a Wellclose Square . Waƙarta ta ƙarshe da aka sani ita ce a shekarar 1809 a Royal Circus a ranar 30 ga Oktoba. Mijinta ya mutu yana da shekaru 40 a shekara ta 1819 kuma ta shirya a buga littafinsa game da dara a shekara ta 1821.  Daga baya ta ƙaura zuwa Paris. A shekara ta 1843 an ruwaito cewa an ƙirƙiri rajista don amfanin ta. Har zuwa wannan lokacin ta kula da kanta ta hanyar ba da darussa game da dara. Ƙoƙarin biyan kuɗi ya jawo gudummawa daga masu sha'awar dara a Ingila da Faransa ciki har da Sarki Louis-Philippe . 

Dufour ya mutu a birnin Paris a shekarar 1846. 

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