Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Germaine de Staël
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Standard Name: Staël, Germaine de
Birth Name: Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Married Name: Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Used Form: Germaine de Stael
GS
is remembered primarily for her political activism and the salons she established following the French Revolution; history, politics, and culture were certainly among her frequent literary subjects. The same interests inform her highly successful and influential novels, some short stories and, less significantly, plays. Other writings include literary criticism and personal letters.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg.
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Her anglophilia and her attention to English literature and culture gave her particular importance for British women writers.
He became a philosopher and a professor of aesthetics, and published a number of books including a study of Germaine de Staël
. His best known work, however, was his diary. It exerted an influence...
Travel
Jane Austen
During the next few years she made half a dozen primarily business visits to London. She mixed in society but (probably in September 1814) declined to meet Germaine de Staël
.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-11.
9-10
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production
Jane Austen
John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...
Friends, Associates
Joanna Baillie
Through her friendship with Mary Berry
, JB
met Germaine de Staël
.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books.
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Friends, Associates
Joanna Baillie
On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already...
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
MMB
acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...
Textual Production
Mary Matilda Betham
MMB
's collateral descendant Ernest Betham
makes much use in relating her family history of a Memorandum Book, from my Birth, 1776, till July, 1795, which covers some of the functions of both autobiography...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anita Brookner
AB
relishes all this. But she writes with tactful sympathy of Germaine de Staël
and her younger, mostly unreciprocating lovers, and of Judith Gautier
(daughter of Théophile
), who deserves to be remembered not only...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël
's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
3: 25
She strongly admired the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The authorial voice is forthright about the poet's own desire to be a literary trail-blazer for womankind, and she is already defining that task in terms of rejection of the domestic. She also has a...
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf.
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H. L. Mencken
, however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
Family and Intimate relationships
Georgiana Chatterton
GC
was born at the home of a maternal aunt, Margaret Pitt
, wife of William Morton Pitt. A beautiful woman, Georgiana's aunt moved among the leading figures of her day. She spent time at...
Intertextuality and Influence
Georgiana Chatterton
She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch
, Byron
, Germaine de Staël
. In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel...
Literary responses
Lydia Maria Child
John Greenleaf Whittier
felt that this novel, together with LMC
's lives of Manon Roland
and Germaine de Staël
(first volume in The Ladies' Family Library) showed that polemical writing had not harmed her...
Timeline
1804: The publisher George, George, and John Robinson,...
Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton
, was published.
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
Writing climate item
By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
Texts
Staël, Germaine de. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise. Delaunay, 1818.
Staël, Germaine de. Corinne. Imprimerie des Annales des arts et manufactures, 1807.
Staël, Germaine de. Corinne; or, Italy. Translators Hill, Isabel and L. E. L., R. Bentley, 1833.
Staël, Germaine de. Corinne; or, Italy. Translators Hill, Isabel and L. E. L., A. L. Burt, 1857.
Staël, Germaine de. De l’Allemagne. H. Nicolle, 1810.
Staël, Germaine de. De l’influence des passions. Jean Mourer, 1796.
Staël, Germaine de. De la littérature. 1800.
Staël, Germaine de. Delphine. J. J. Paschoud, 1802.
Staël, Germaine de. Dix années d’exil. Treuttel and Würtz, 1821.
Staël, Germaine de, and Germaine de Staël. “Essai sur les fictions”. Recueil de morceaux détachés, Durand, Ravenel, 1795, pp. 61-4.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Germaine de Staël. Le plus beau de toutes les fêtes. Editor Pange, Victor de, Klincksieck, 1980.
Staël, Germaine de. Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau. 1788.
Staël, Germaine de. Réflexions sur la paix. 1794.
Staël, Germaine de. Réflexions sur le procès de la reine. 1793.
Staël, Germaine de. Réflexions sur le suicide. Charles Delén, 1813.
Hill, Isabel et al. “Translator’s Preface; Madame de Staël”. Corinne; or, Italy, translated by. Isabel Hill and L. E. L., A. L. Burt, 1857, p. iii - iv; v-xxi.
Staël, Germaine de. Zulma. 1794.
Staël, Germaine de. Œuvres complètes. Treuttel and Würtz, 1821.