Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Colette
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Standard Name: Colette
Birth Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Gauthier-Villars
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle de Jouvenel
Married Name: Sidonie-Gabrielle Goudeket
Pseudonym: Willy
Pseudonym: Colette
Pseudonym: Colette Willy
Colette
, a Frenchwoman whose career began with the twentieth century, wrote nearly eighty volumes of fiction (often depicting lesbian or other scandalous sexuality), as well as journalism, memoirs (she is a great self-fashioner), and plays. Only a fraction is commented on here. Eight various collections of her letters have been printed, and many more remain unpublished. Her favourite topics are love, sensuality, and people's jockeying for power in relationships; she is a pioneer in the representation of female desire.
Castle, Terry. “Yes you, sweetheart”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 3-8.
SB
's feeling of unalterable security as a small child came from her nursemaid, Louise, who existed, as I thought, only in order to watch over my sister and myself.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001.
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Her mother felt responsible...
Fictionalization
Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB
has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks
of Diana Souhami
's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar
's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling...
Fictionalization
Lady Eleanor Butler
Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB
's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of...
In the wake of Hall's death, UT
found some strength from her friendships with women, such as the writers Colette
and Natalie Barney
.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Bowen
The authors whom EB
wrote of for the British Council in English Novelists are (as the commission required) canonical and mostly male. She was deeply influenced by Virginia Woolf
, and wrote after Woolf's death...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Brookner
It is titled from the apparently Swiss resort hotel where the heroine, Edith Hope, is packed off by her friends after an embarrassing public faux pas. Trapped in an unsuspected love-affair with a married man...
Intertextuality and Influence
Brigid Brophy
One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Bryher
After the Second World War, and Influenced by her varied studies (of Shakespeare
, Mallarmé
, Colette
, and of Persia) as well as by her perceptions of contemporary European warfare, Bryher wrote...
Intertextuality and Influence
J. K. Rowling
Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michèle Roberts
The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR
writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michèle Roberts
The French side of MR
's heritage includes influence from George Sand
and Colette
.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34.
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In a recent interview she stresses the intimate connection, in her view, between memory and creativity, and the fact...
Timeline
1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...
Building item
1 January 1916
The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast
in Hanover Square, London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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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.
Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.
Texts
Colette,. Chéri. Calmann-Lévy, 1920.
Senhouse, Roger, and Colette. Chéri and The Last of Chéri. Secker and Warburg, 1951.
Colette,. Claudine à l’école. P. Ollendorff, 1900.
Colette,. Creatures Great and Small. Translator McLeod, Enid, Secker and Warburg, 1951.
Colette,. Creatures Great and Small. Translator McLeod, Enid, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1951.
Colette,. Gigi et Autres Nouvelles. La Guilde de Livre, 1944.
Colette,. Gigi. Julie de Carneilhan. Chance Acquaintances. Translator Senhouse, Roger, Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952.
Thurman, Judith et al. “Introduction”. My Mother’s House; and Sido, translated by. Una Troubridge and Enid McLeod, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, p. vii - xxiv.
Colette, and Maurice Ravel. L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. Durand, 1925.
Colette,. L’Entrave. Librairie des Lettres, 1913.
Colette,. La Maison de Claudine. J. Ferenczi, 1922.
Colette,. La Naissance du Jour. E. Flammarion, 1928.
Colette,. La Retraite Sentimentale. Mercure de France, 1907.
Colette,. La Seconde. Ferenczi, 1929.
Colette,. La Vagabonde. P. Ollendorff, 1910.
Colette,. Le Pur et l’Impur. Aux Armes de France, 1941.
Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard, 2003.
Colette,. Mes Apprentissages. Ferenczi, 1936.
Colette,. My Mother’s House; and Sido. Translators Troubridge, Una and Enid McLeod, Secker and Warburg, 1953.
Colette,. “Préface”. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953, edited by Anne de Jouvenel et al., Gallimard, 2003, pp. 7-19.