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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Pardoe | JP
did not aim to provide a record of the Sun King's public life for statesmen and politicians; she hoped instead to depict his private humanity as it was portrayed in the personal memoirs of... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
published one of her favourite works, a biography of Madame de Sévigné. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 290 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | In 1914 she produced, in French and again using her married name, Madame Duclaux, an edition entitled Mme. de Sévigné
, textes. Years later, in 1927, she contributed the introduction to another edition... |
Friends, Associates | Madeleine de Scudéry | Her friends and associates included novelist Marie Madeleine de Lafayette
, letter-writer Marie de Sévigné
, and maxim-writer La Rochefoucauld
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Shelley | Most of MS
's subjects are male, but they include Vittoria Colonna
, Marie de Sévigné
, Manon Roland
, and Germaine de Staël
. |
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... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | 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 Production | Melesina Trench | In September 1811 MT
was intending to publish the letters exchanged between Edward Tighe
(who had written on Irish social issues) and Mansergh St George
. She had drafted a preface but made no further... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 18 |
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