Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
André Gide
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Standard Name: Gide, André
Used Form: Andre Gide
AG
was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | In 1921 DB
began to record her relationship with Gide
in private volumes that both referred to as the black notebook. It is possible that these were the diaries which Pippa Strachey
later urged... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | The University of Victoria
in Canada has about forty letters written to DB
by T. S. Eliot
, spanning the years 1934 to 1955. The Bibliothèque Nationale
has her correspondence with Gide
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
and André Gide
met in Cambridge, beginning a close personal and professional relationship. Lambert, Jean et al. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxiii. vii |
| Travel | Dorothy Bussy | DB
attended a literary conference at the Cistercian Abbaye de Pontigny
, at Pontigny in Yonne, France. She returned there in 1926, and on both occasions André Gide
was one of her companions. Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 292-3, 297 |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | DB
and her family had their friend André Gide
staying with them for seven months at their home in Nice. Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press. 340-2 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | DB
, who later became known for translating much of Gide
's fiction, first reached print with her translation of Auguste Bréal
's Velasquez. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Colette | Colette
knew all the literary and intellectual world of Paris, including André Gide
, Maurice Ravel
, and Jean Cocteau
. Martha Gellhorn
was known to her as Marty. Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8. 5 Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard. 527 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
| Reception | Susan Hill | This novel won the Whitbread Literary Award for fiction for 1972. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | During the later phase of her career, DR
translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of... |
| politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers
held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The Hogarth Press
began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 72, 82 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 372 |
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