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 Eight various collections of her letters have been printed, and many more remain unpublished.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, pp. 3-8.
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Black and white photograph of Colette wearing a man's suit (with cuffed jacket) and dress shoes. She is sittine turned in a chair so that her arm rests on its back, crossing her left leg over her right, and smoking a cigarette. She wear her hair in a curly bob.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Natalie Clifford Barney
By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott
Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
In a letter to Gertrude Stein written in December 1926, NCB explains: The other night . . . I realized how little the French femmes de lettres know of English and Americans and vice versa...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Natalie Clifford Barney
The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Natalie Clifford Barney
In the preface, NCB comments that she has never written anything that was not inspired by love or intimacy.
Barney, Natalie Clifford. Souvenirs indiscrets. Flammarion.
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The volume contains a long piece on Renée Vivien , and shorter, intimate sketches (...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Simone de Beauvoir
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.
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Her mother felt responsible...
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...
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...
Occupation Eva Figes
EF had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood , Jane Austen , Elizabeth Bowen , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Frances Burney , Willa Cather , Colette ,...
Textual Production Eva Figes
EF wrote introductions to Maria Edgeworth 's Belinda and Patronage for the Pandora Press 's Mothers of the Novel series, both publiahed in 1986. She also contributed an article to Colette, 1991, a volume...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Germaine Greer
The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
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It moves swiftly into the concept of a fear or hatred of old women, which Greer names anophobia.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
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Friends, Associates Radclyffe Hall
During the 1920s, RH and Una Troubridge were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie , Romaine Brooks , Natalie Barney , Noël Coward , Tallulah Bankhead , and...

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.

Texts

Colette,. Chéri. Calmann-Lévy, 1920.
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.
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,. 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.