Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Colette
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Standard Name: Colette
Birth Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Gauthier-Villars
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle de Jouvenel
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Goudeket
Pseudonym: Willy
Pseudonym: Colette
Pseudonym: Colette Willy
Colette
, a Frenchwoman whose career began with the twentieth century, wrote nearly eighty volumes of fiction (often depicting lesbian or other scandalous sexuality), as well as journalism, memoirs (she is a great self-fashioner), and plays. Only a fraction is commented on here. Eight various collections of her letters have been printed, and many more remain unpublished. Her favourite topics are love, sensuality, and people's jockeying for power in relationships; she is a pioneer in the representation of female desire.
Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8.
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
Julia Kristeva
JK
issued in three successive volumes what she calls a triptych: Le génie féminin: La Vie, la folie, les mots: Hannah Arendt
, Melanie Klein
, Colette.
Kristeva, Julia. “Is There a Feminine Genius?”. Critical Inquiry, Vol.
30
, No. 3, pp. 493-04.
493 and n1
Textual Production
Deborah Levy
DL
has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC
radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette
, of Unless by Carol Shields
, and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca
, the last...
Textual Production
Penelope Mortimer
Besides reviewing television, PM
wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette
's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse
, about a teenage boy's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michèle Roberts
The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys...
Literary responses
Michèle Roberts
MR
thought the reviews of this first book wonderful,
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
153
because [y]ou couldn't have asked for a richer range.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
160
That range, however, spanned male voices complaining of shrieking Lesbian banshees
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
153
and a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michèle Roberts
The French side of MR
's heritage includes influence from George Sand
and Colette
.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
119
In a recent interview she stresses the intimate connection, in her view, between memory and creativity, and the fact...
Intertextuality and Influence
J. K. Rowling
Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went...
VT
marked her forty-third birthday with a party at the Eiffel Tower; Colette
and other guests wore period costumes from the time of the Tower's inauguration on 31 March 1889.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Performance of text
Una Troubridge
The Stage Society
produced UT
's theatrical version of Colette
's Chéri at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf.
202
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
290
Textual Production
Una Troubridge
UT
collaborated again, working with Enid McLeod
, on My Mother's House; and Sido, a translation in one volume of both Colette
's La maison de Claudine (a volume of autobiographical sketches) and her...