Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
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Standard Name: Genlis, Stéphanie-Félicité de
Birth Name: Caroline Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest
Married Name: Caroline Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis
Titled: Caroline Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis
Used Form: Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis
Used Form: Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Countess of Genlis and Marchioness
of Sillery
SFG
, French aristocrat, royal mistress, and later a political refugee in England, made her mark as an educational theorist and writer for children (plays, stories, and good advice) during the decade leading up to the French Revolution. She also published adult novels, romances, and an autobiography. In England at least it was her writing for children that was admired and influential.
The appearance of a rival translation (by some Ladies, unidentified, who had turned their polite accomplishments into earning skills as a result of falling into comparative poverty from ease and opulence) pre-empted publication...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
EMA
goes into some detail about the French court and royal family from the time that she lived at Versailles, pausing too to do justice to the talents of Madame Genlis, if only in...
Textual Production
Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Fenton
Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame
Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold.
1-2
in British India. But this is largely unfulfilled...
Publishing
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
Textual Production
Ann Hatton
AH
continued to write after she and her husband returned from North America. The ODNB mentions her anonymous story The Unknown, or, The Knight of the Blood-Red Plume in a collection called Welsh Legends...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes from Spenser
, and the first chapter from Johnson
's Rambler. This sophisticated novel, with a North Yorkshire setting, a large cast of upper-class characters, and a wide range of reference...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Inchbald
Most of EI
's plays employ common sentimental comedic plots of marriage choice and sexual intrigue. Set in England and various other countries, they often open with the reappearance of some character from overseas: in...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Inchbald
The source was Zélie; ou, L'Ingénue by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
. The adaptation was published on 12 December.
Performance of text
Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
's The Child of Nature, an adaptation of de Genlis
written in ten days, opened.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1114
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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Julia Kavanagh
In her preface JK
explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it...
Education
Fanny Kemble
Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt.
81
though she condemned the writings of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Family and Intimate relationships
Ada Leverson
AL
's daughter, Violet
, married Major Guy Wyndham in June 1923; they had two children.
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
A subsidiary drama builds around the efforts of Inez to be allowed to nurse her delirious husband. The surgeon rejects her help, but she gets the nurse, Mrs Crane (who is forty-five, masculine-looking, strongminded, kind-hearted...
