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
AG
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.
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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, p. vii - xxiii.
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Travel
Dorothy Bussy
DB
attended a literary conference at the Cistercian Abbaye de Pontigny
, at Pontigny in Yonne, France. She returned there in 1926, and on both occasions André Gide
was one of her companions.
Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press.
292-3, 297
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.
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Textual Production
Dorothy Bussy
DB
, who later became known for translating much of Gide
's fiction, first reached print with her translation of Auguste Bréal
's Velasquez.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Dorothy Bussy
The Selected Letters of André Gide
and Dorothy Bussy was published.
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...
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
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.
Texts
Gide, André. Corydon. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924.
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.
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.