Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
André Gide
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Standard Name: Gide, André
Used Form: Andre Gide
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was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Bussy
DB
and André Gide
met in Cambridge, beginning a close personal and professional relationship.
Lambert, Jean et al. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. vii - xxiii.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Bussy
Simon Bussy
, Dorothy's future husband, was born Albert Bussy
in 1870, at Dole in the Jura, which he left in 1886. He arrived in Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Carmen
The Hogarth Press
began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
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Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Brookner
Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His...
The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers
held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...
Author summary
Dorothy Bussy
As a writer DB
is best known for Olivia, her immensely successful, anonymous or rather pseudonymous, autobiographical novel, published in 1949, about a young girl's development at a French boarding school in the later...
Reception
Susan Hill
This novel won the Whitbread Literary Award for fiction for 1972.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Critic Michele Murray
called it a thoroughly created piece of work . . . wrought of language, built not from any personal experience,...
Reception
Dorothy Bussy
The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard
Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963.
cover and prelims
Timeline
21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...
National or international item
21-25 June 1935
The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
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Texts
Gide, André. Corydon. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924.
Gide, André. Geneviève. Gallimard, 1936.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Lambert, Jean et al. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. vii - xxiii.
Gide, André. Journal 1889-1939. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1939.
Gide, André. L’école des femmes. Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929.
Gide, André. L’immoraliste. Mercure de France, 1902.
Gide, André. La Porte étroite. Sociéte du Mercure de France, 1909.
Gide, André. Les Cahiers d’André Walter. Librairie de l’Art Indépendant, 1891.
Gide, André. Les Caves du Vatican. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1914.
Gide, André. Les faux-monnayeurs. Gallimard, 1925.
Gide, André. Les Nourritures Terrestres. Sociéte du Mercure de France, 1897.
Gide, André. Oedipe. Gallimard, 1931.
Gide, André. Robert. Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929.
Gide, André et al. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy. Editor Tedeschi, Richard, Oxford University Press, 1983.
Gide, André. Si le grain ne meurt. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924, 3 vols.
Gide, André. Strait is the Gate. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Jarrolds, 1924.
Gide, André. The Counterfeiters. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1927.
Gide, André. The Immoralist. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1930.
Gide, André. The School for Wives. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1929.
Gide, André. The Vatican Swindle. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1925.