Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
André Gide
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Standard Name: Gide, André
Used Form: Andre Gide
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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.
As a writer DB
is best known for Olivia, her immensely successful, anonymous or rather pseudonymous, autobiographical novel, published in 1949, about a young girl's development at a French boarding school in the later...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Bussy
Simon Bussy
, Dorothy's future husband, was born Albert Bussy
in 1870, at Dole in the Jura, which he left in 1886. He arrived in Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Carmen
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.
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Critic Michele Murray
called it a thoroughly created piece of work . . . wrought of language, built not from any personal experience,...
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.