Honoré de Balzac

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Standard Name: Balzac, Honoré de
Used Form: Honore de Balzac

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Education Ouida
Her father was also important in her education, encouraging her interest in history, politics (from a liberal standpoint), and the writings of Balzac and Stendhal . She wrote in an early diary, I must study...
Education Caroline Clive
CC 's education took place at home.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
At about fourteen she was studying music, drawing, French, possibly German, Latin, Greek, history, geography, and mathematics. She became fluent in French and later took great pleasure in...
Education H. D.
Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound 's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Clive
Letters between CC and her husband reveal an affectionate and caring relationship. In a letter to her dated May 1840 he writes: You are rather a shabby correspondent. I have, however, got you Balzac and...
Fictionalization George Sand
GS was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac 's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult .
Jordan, Ruth. George Sand: A Biographical Portrait. Taplinger, 1976.
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Friends, Associates George Sand
It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac and the journalist Henri de Latouche . Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve .
Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001.
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Jaeger, Muriel. Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. G. Bell and Sons, 1932.
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Intertextuality and Influence Pamela Hansford Johnson
In each novel Toby, who comes from a lower-middle-class South London background and is sharply aware of the utility of women for a handsome young man like himself with the intention of rising in the...
Intertextuality and Influence Lucas Malet
Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...
Intertextuality and Influence Natalie Clifford Barney
Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien , who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The antecedents of Braddon's work were both print and stage melodrama, and as her career progressed her work increasingly reflected the influence of French realists and naturalists: Flaubert , Balzac , and Zola .
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Charlotte's Inheritance treats the Stock Exchange and a poisoner based on art critic and murderer Thomas Griffiths Wainewright . Both these books, according to Wolff, reveal the influence of Collins and Balzac , about whose...
Intertextuality and Influence Anita Brookner
This book, abounding in satirical vignettes, is the first of AB 's anti-romances. Its protagonist is a university lecturer who, looking back at forty on her experience since childhood, knew that her life had been...
Literary responses Ouida
The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2016 (16 June 1866): 797
and thought anyone choosing to read it was making a very bad use of their freedom.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2016 (16 June 1866): 798
In...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...
Literary responses Ellen Wood
Charles Wood points this out: such a review was rare, and it directed the whole English-speaking world to the work fortunate enough to gain its notice.
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895.
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Written by Samuel Lucas , then editor of...

Timeline

1827: French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing...

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1827

French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing his series of ninety-one interconnected novels and stories, the Comédie humaine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1833: Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie...

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1833

Honoré de Balzac published his novel Eugénie Grandet.
Petit Larousse, illustré, 1980. Librairie Larousse, 1980.

1834: Honoré de Balzac's novel Esther Heureuse,...

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1834

Honoré de Balzac 's novel Esther Heureuse, part of his Comédie humaine, appeared, introducing those who were able to read it in French to an early representation of l'amour sapphique or lesbianism.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Introduction”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 9-18.
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Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Introduction”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 9-18.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1846: Honoré de Balzac published La Cousine Be...

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1846

Honoré de Balzac published La Cousine Bette.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Balzac, Honoré de. La Comédie humaine. Furné, 1849, 17 vols.