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Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Its subject is the relationship between a daughter and the mother (who conceived and bore her outside marriage, without the cushion of financial security), and about their struggles to survive. Tales of the mother's own... |
Publishing | Mavis Gallant | During her six years with the Montreal Standard, MG
wrote about economic, cultural, political, and social issues, including interviewing post-war refugees, reporting on Jean-Paul Sartre
's visit to the city in 1946, and exploring... |
Publishing | Betty Miller | After the rejection of her fourth novel, BM
turned her attention to short stories for John O'London's Weekly and other magazines. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xi-xii |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter
has written that SB
's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and... |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | Sartre
believed it to be the best thing she had ever written. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Simone de Beauvoir | The one-hundredth anniversary of SB
's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | In Paris on a press pass shortly after the liberation of France, AWE
met with Jean-Paul Sartre
to express her admiration for his play Les mouches. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 168-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
's early perception of Jean-Paul Sartre
was as the centre of a little band of scoffers and moral daredevils, which she felt sure she could never penetrate. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 309 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | Though KKD
's father, Abanimohan Kushari
, studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka)
and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | Her relationship with Sartre
was not all smooth. It became a three-way relationship, against de Beauvoir's will, when he invited into their shared life a younger woman, Olga Kosakiewicz
. SB
for her part had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | During her time in the USA, SB
embarked on a love-affair with Chicago writer Nelson Algren
. They continued to correspond after her return to France, and in 1998 selections from this correspondence were published... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | Jean-Paul Sartre
, French philosopher, novelist, dramatist, critic, and SB
's lifelong partner, died in Paris. Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 27 |
Education | Simone de Beauvoir | Sent to a private school, the deeply Catholic Adeline Désir Institute
, Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 67 Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin. 21 |
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