Marie de Sévigné
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Standard Name: Sévigné, Marie de
Birth Name: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Married Name: Marie de Sévigné
Titled: Marie, marquise de Sévigné
Used Form: Marie de Sevigne
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, who lived and wrote in seventeenth-century France, is widely regarded as one of the world's great letter-writers. The standard scholarly edition contains 1,372 letters.
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Textual Features | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | MB
's other Byron introduction, to her selection of his letters and journals, positions the genre (with reference to human curiosity, and to the epistolary novel as well as to the letters of Sevigné
and... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | CT
's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné
, Richardson
, Henry Fielding
and Samuel Johnson
. She also writes of the details of her daily life... |
Textual Features | Françoise de Graffigny | Compared with her celebrated predecessor Marie de Sévigné
, FG
writes an informal, colloquial, sometimes headlong style. Her subject-matter includes domestic trivia and expressions of mood, feeling, and opinion, as well as information about historical... |
Publishing | Arabella Shore | In addition to her poetry, AS
published at least three significant pieces of literary criticism: essays on the contemporary, active George Meredith
and on Marie de Sévigné
for the British Quarterly Review in 1879 and... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Moody | The Gentleman's Magazine obituary of EM
bestowed lavish praise on her letters, comparing them to those of Marie de Sévigné
. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 84 (1814): 2: 613 |
Literary responses | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Lady Dacre's friends called her a Sévigné
for her letter-writing, but she told them to destroy her letters. Not all of them complied, but no doubt some of them did. Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray. 19-20 |
Literary responses | Emily Eden | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer praised these letters for humour, richness, spontaneity, and wit. The Spectator reviewer likened them to those of Madame de Sévigné
. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Research. 104 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia O'Faolain | The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | Like CG
's Cecil he is a dandy in love with his own looks, which in his case include his exceptionally small size (said to be about that of a full-grown mouse). Of concomitant beauty... |
Friends, Associates | Madeleine de Scudéry | Her friends and associates included novelist Marie Madeleine de Lafayette
, letter-writer Marie de Sévigné
, and maxim-writer La Rochefoucauld
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Education | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | Her education was remarkable even for her class. She even studied Hebrew as well as Latin, in which she was tutored along with the girl who later became Madame de Sevigné
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