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.
In this ground-breaking study CR
provides the first full critical and historical account of the modern novel form (the one most used by women writers), and defends the genre of romance against its many attackers...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
began making up stories in her sixth year, but wrote later, what they were I have not the least idea. I was too young to write them down; but when I had thought of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
The pamphlet (of which other, later translations also exist) had in MAS
's version notes by Lewis Way
, an Evangelical Anglican who had travelled in Russia and met the Tsar. It concentrates on Alexander's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Martha Sherwood
She began it in connection with the writing game shared with her sister: the exchange of letters in the voice of French characters, modelled on those of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
in Adelaide and Theodore; or...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Marsh
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...
In Paris HMW
frequented Mme Roland
's salon, and she and Stone
became close friends of Roland and her husband
. Those who visited HMW
early in her time in Paris included Mary Wollstonecraft
(who...
Friends, Associates
Lady Eleanor Butler
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
was at Plas Newydd in 1792 with her daughter (or reputed daughter) Pamela; and six years later, in May 1798, Pamela (now Lady Edward Fitzgerald
) was there again, putting a strain...
Lady Campbell was the daughter of romantically-associated parents: Lord Edward Fitzgerald
...
Friends, Associates
Maria Edgeworth
While she was in Paris ME
met the now elderly and impoverished Mme de Genlis
, whose Adèle et Théodore she had translated in her early teens.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
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Fictionalization
Lady Eleanor Butler
Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB
's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's mother, Mary
, Lady Wemyss, was born a Wyndham, a descendent of the writer Félicité, Mme de Genlis
, and of her royal lover Philippe Egalité
, Duc d'Orléans (who was also father...
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.
Her husband no longer had any duty to support her. At this time he was in Paris, making a living as an English teacher among the offspring of the French nobility, under the patronage...
Education
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Their father sent them there so that, following his wife's death and his bankruptcy, he could join a travelling company. At this Huguenot, French-speaking school they met the daughters of politician Henry Grattan
and those...
