Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Germaine de Staël
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Standard Name: Staël, Germaine de
Birth Name: Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Married Name: Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Used Form: Germaine de Stael
GS
is remembered primarily for her political activism and the salons she established following the French Revolution; history, politics, and culture were certainly among her frequent literary subjects. The same interests inform her highly successful and influential novels, some short stories and, less significantly, plays. Other writings include literary criticism and personal letters.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg.
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Her anglophilia and her attention to English literature and culture gave her particular importance for British women writers.
The book's first and longest piece, The History of an Enthusiast, is strongly influenced by Germaine de Staël
's novel Corinne; ou, L'Italie.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
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Protagonist Julia Osborne is an orphan being brought up...
Textual Features
Maria Jane Jewsbury
The second story, The History of a Nonchalant is an early fictional treatment of religious doubt as suffered by its intellectual male protagonist, Charles. He travels to Rome, where he marries an Italian poet...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Other titles here include The Voice of the Poor, France in '93, Corinne's Last Love-Song (a response to the tradition initiated by Germaine de Staël
), and A Lament for the Potato.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Poems. Cameron and Ferguson.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Brownell Jameson
This work, which somewhat uncomfortably mixes romance with travel narrative and cultural guide, was influenced by de Staël
's Corinne. Initially put out by a printer named Thomas at his own expense, it was...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Brownell Jameson
The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Jacson
The title-page quotes Pope
and Staël
. The novel's opening sounds like a tale of mysterious origins, but without the mystery. A quotation from Shakespeare
's Tempest—Prospero telling Miranda the story of her past—introduces...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
first met both Maria Edgeworth
(with whom her friendship had begun two years earlier, when Edgeworth wrote to her in praise of A Simple Story) and Germaine de Staël
.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Occupation
Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH
was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Material Conditions of Writing
Isabel Hill
Her need for money having induced IH
to accept Richard Bentley
's offer to translate Germaine de Staël
's Corinne into English for his series Bentley's Standard Novels, her version appeared in print.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Hervey
All this provides background for a story about EH
's behaviour later the same year. John Polidori
related that on Byron
's first visit to Mme de Staël
's chateau at Coppet in Switzerland...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
She particularly admired Joanna Baillie
's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart
. Germaine de Staël
's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
It again includes many historical, literary, and imaginative portraits of women, including Woman on the Field of Battle. But its enquiry into the affections extends to domestic ties in men too. The Indian with...
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Chorley
also wrote the note on FH
in The Authors of England: A Series of Medallion Portraits, 1838, claiming for her a place of honour
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, and Achille Collas. The Authors of England. Charles Tilt.
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among those treated there, strongly praising The Forest...
