Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press.
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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Bussy | At these times they rented out La Souco, a practice which became an important source of income. Their tenants included Rudyard Kipling
, George Mallory
, and André Malraux
; André Gide
and Julian Morrell |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | By 1918 DB
had written a three-act play called Miss Stock. She gave it to Gide
to read in about 1929 and he was reminded of it in April 1932, after seeing Mädchen in... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | In 1921 DB
began to record her relationship with Gide
in private volumes that both referred to as the black notebook. It is possible that these were the diaries which Pippa Strachey
later urged... |
| 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. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard. 527 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | During the later phase of her career, DR
translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of... |
| 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... |
| 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. 72, 82 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 372 |
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