Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 149 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | Apart from her short-lived legitimate daughter, GS
had two sons by Narbonne
, a daughter, Albertine, the result of her affair with Benjamin Constant
, and a youngest son whose father was John Rocca
. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 22-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | As years went on GS
became notorious for her propensity to be desperately in love with some handsome young man including Benjamin Constant
(whom she met in September 1794) and Prosper de Barante
. Few... |
Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | The book attracted attacks from Catholics and from specialists with more knowledge than GS
. One politician criticised her for attempting such a large topic, allegedly outside the realm of a woman's proper sphere. It... |
Fictionalization | Germaine de Staël | Benjamin Constant
, formerly the lover of GS
, represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 26 |
politics | Germaine de Staël | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant
's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe
's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
's novel The Scarlet Letter. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 59, 62-7 |
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... |
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