Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marie de Sévigné
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Standard Name: Sévigné, Marie de
Birth Name: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Married Name: Marie de Sévigné
Titled: Marie, marquise de Sévigné
Used Form: Marie de Sevigne
MS
, who lived and wrote in seventeenth-century France, is widely regarded as one of the world's great letter-writers. The standard scholarly edition contains 1,372 letters.
CT
's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné
, Richardson
, Henry Fielding
and Samuel Johnson
. She also writes of the details of her daily life...
Textual Features
Françoise de Graffigny
Compared with her celebrated predecessor Marie de Sévigné
, FG
writes an informal, colloquial, sometimes headlong style. Her subject-matter includes domestic trivia and expressions of mood, feeling, and opinion, as well as information about historical...
Textual Features
Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
observed in her introduction to French Fireside Poetry that in France the poetesses have hitherto taken lower rank than the great prose-writers Sévigné
and Sand
. She mentions but does not translate the unhappy...
Textual Features
Mathilde Blind
MB
's other Byron introduction, to her selection of his letters and journals, positions the genre (with reference to human curiosity, and to the epistolary novel as well as to the letters of Sevigné
and...
Publishing
Arabella Shore
In addition to her poetry, AS
published at least three significant pieces of literary criticism: essays on the contemporary, active George Meredith
and on Marie de Sévigné
for the British Quarterly Review in 1879 and...
Literary responses
Emily Eden
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer praised these letters for humour, richness, spontaneity, and wit. The Spectator reviewer likened them to those of Madame de Sévigné
.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Gale Research.
104
Literary responses
Elizabeth Moody
The Gentleman's Magazine obituary of EM
bestowed lavish praise on her letters, comparing them to those of Marie de Sévigné
.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
84 (1814): 2: 613
Literary responses
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Lady Dacre's friends called her a Sévigné
for her letter-writing, but she told them to destroy her letters. Not all of them complied, but no doubt some of them did.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
19-20
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Gore
Like CG
's Cecil he is a dandy in love with his own looks, which in his case include his exceptionally small size (said to be about that of a full-grown mouse). Of concomitant beauty...
Intertextuality and Influence
Julia O'Faolain
The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation...
Her education was remarkable even for her class. She even studied Hebrew as well as Latin, in which she was tutored along with the girl who later became Madame de Sevigné
.
