Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
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Standard Name: Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d'
Birth Name: Marie-Catherine Lejumel de Barneville
Married Name: Marie-Catherine La Mothe
Titled: Marie-Catherine La Mothe, baronne d'Aulnoy
Titled: Marie-Catherine La Mothe, comtesse d'Aulnoy
Indexed Name: Countess Daulnoy
Indexed Name: Madame D'Aulnoy
Used Form: Madame d's Aulnoy
Used Form: a person of quality
Used Form: the Countess d'Anois
Used Form: the Countess of Dunois
MCA
, novelist or historical romance-writer, travel-writer, author of fairy tales and scandal fictions, was highly influential in each of these roles in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, as well as her native France. She belonged in the popular tradition, as is shown by the constant reshuffling of her writings, complete or in part, sometimes spliced with the writings of others. Where no copies of a particular printing survive, they were probably read to pieces. New translations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show her continuing importance to women writing in English.
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In the same year as this collection, 1994, ASB
contributed a story, The Great Green Worm translated from Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, to Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment, edited by Marina Warner
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Education
Simone de Beauvoir
SB
knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Kirkup, JamesTranslator , Penguin, 2001.
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Later, the scanty resources of my city childhood could not compete with the riches...
Intertextuality and Influence
Delarivier Manley
DM
's The Lady's Pacquet of Letters, a work of fiction, was published bound with d'Aulnoy
's Memoirs of the Court of England and another work.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), No. 1, pp. 2 - 5.
2
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Delarivier Manley
A political scandal-novel or secret history published in London as originally by Madame d'Aulnoy
re-used DM
's title: Bribery in Perfection . . . being fresh Advices from the new Atalantis.
OCLC WorldCat.
Intertextuality and Influence
Delarivier Manley
Though she based the Letters on fact, DM
explicitly shaped them to the tradition of d'Aulnoy
's fictional travel-letters about Spain. And even her quest for solitude was patterned after Horace
and Cowley
.
Publishing
Penelope Aubin
PA
's second novel, The Life of Madam de Beaumount, a French Lady, was advertised as this day published by a conger of ten publishers (the same who also published travels by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
Publishing
Ephelia
The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Textual Features
Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Goudge
Her protagonist, Lucy Walter
, was an actual person, mistress or perhaps wife to Charles II
and mother of the Duke of Monmouth
. EG
was moved to write her story after reading Lucy Walter...
Textual Features
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
This work extends and deepens the pictures given in her first book of reminiscences both of Johnson
and his circle and of other people including women writers. LMH
expresses admiration for Hester Piozzi
's letter...
Textual Features
Delarivier Manley
The text belongs to a genre well-known in France as the chronique scandaleuse, and popularised in England through the writings of Madame d'Aulnoy
(who had been much translated, and had already influenced DM
). It...
The idea that Johnson modelled the tripartite structure of his most substantial lives on a work by Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
is probably a mistake. The Recueils des plus belles pièces des poëtes François, 1692...
Textual Production
Jean Plaidy
Lucy Walter (who had become a fictional heroine early, in Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
's Memoirs of the Court of England, 1695, and was soon to be treated by Elizabeth Goudge
in The Child from the...
Textual Production
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, pp. 285 - 7.
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Timeline
6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
1756
Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont
published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy storyBeauty and the Beast.