Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
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Julie de Lespinasse
Standard Name: Lespinasse, Julie de
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Health | Dora Carrington | Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Notices in the British Review and other English journals were fairly appreciative, but quick to compliment British women writers at the expense of the French, as if the book had been a challenge to their... |
| Textual Features | Marie Belloc Lowndes | In her reviewing capacity she was able to comment on several texts central to the European tradition of women's writing. She called Marie de Lafayette
's La Princesse de Cleves (re-issued as part of an... |
| Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | She planned but never completed a biography of the eighteenth-century French letter-writer Julie de Lespinasse
. In May 1940 she was researching in the London Library
for this book. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971. 199 |
| Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
published The Double Heart: A Study of Julie de Lespinasse, celebrated eighteenth-century salonnière and letter-writer. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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