Alexandre Dumas

Standard Name: Dumas, Alexandre,, fils

Used Form: Alexandre Dumas the younger

Connections

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death	Alexandre Dumas	Alexandre Dumas the elder, French novelist, died at the house of his son, Alexandre Dumas the younger , at Puys near Dieppe, following a stroke. Henderson, Lesley, and Sarah M. Hall, editors. Reference Guide to World Literature. 2nd ed., St James Press, 1995, 2 vols. Coward, David. “Having Fun”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 17-18. 17 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 119
Family and Intimate relationships	Alexandre Dumas	AD 's son, Alexandre Dumas, the younger , born in Paris on 28 July 1824, also became an author, chiefly for the stage. He is sometimes confused with his father, since their periods of literary...
Friends, Associates	Sarah Lewis	SL was a friend of Adelaide Ristori (an Italian tragedy actress who married into the nobility and achieved an international reputation) and of novelists Alexandre Dumas the younger , and George Sand , among others...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ethel M. Dell	The title story of Rosa Mundi is distantly based on that of Alexandre Dumas 's La dame aux camélias (which probably came to EMD through Verdi 's operatic version in La Traviata, since her...
Performance of text	Pam Gems	PG 's Camille, a loose adaptation of the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils , opened at Stratford's The Other Place . Gems, Pam. Three Plays. Penguin, 1985. 75 Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73. 171 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 162
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Matilda Charlotte Houstoun	The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive . Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883, 2 vols. I: prelims; II: prelims
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Marie Belloc Lowndes	This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American...

Timeline

1848

Alexandre Dumas the younger published La Dame aux Camélias, a novel which he successfully dramatised in 1852.

Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.

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Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.

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31 March 1889

The Eiffel Tower in Paris (named for its builder) was inaugurated. The foundations were laid two years before this, to protest by Paris writers and artists including Alexandre Dumas the younger and Guy de Maupassant

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