Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Kirkup, JamesTranslator , Penguin, 2001.
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Education | Simone de Beauvoir | As a student SB
continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles
, the moderns: Alain-Fournier
, Cocteau
, Montherlant
, Gide
, Claudel
, Valéry
, Barrès
, and Adrienne Monnier
. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Kirkup, JamesTranslator , Penguin, 2001. 185-6 “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, André Gide, and Dorothy Bussy. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. vii - xxiii. vii |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine)
, André Gide
, Dorothy
and Ezra Pound
, and Gertrude Stein
. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959. 22, 26-7 |
Friends, Associates | Colette | Colette
knew all the literary and intellectual world of Paris, including André Gide
, Maurice Ravel
, and Jean Cocteau
. Martha Gellhorn
was known to her as Marty. Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, pp. 3 - 8. 5 Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Jouvenel, Anne deEditor , Gallimard, 2003. 527 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | DB
and her family had their friend André Gide
staying with them for seven months at their home in Nice. Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press, 2000. 340-2 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | 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. 72, 82 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 372 |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | At the first literary night of Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
, supporters of SB
's bookshop, André Gide
and Paul Valéry
both read works by Valéry. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 358, 361 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Bussy | DB
first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide
. Gide found it not very engaging Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press, 2000. 344 |
politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 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 | 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 |
Reception | Sylvia Beach | Le Mercure de France published its homage to SB
, with essays and poems by T. S. Eliot
, Janet Flanner
, André Gide
, James Joyce
, Gertrude Stein
and others. Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963. cover and prelims |
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. 14 |