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 Eight various collections of her letters have been printed, and many more remain unpublished.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
Reception Susan Hill
This novel won the Whitbread Literary Award for fiction for 1972.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Critic Michele Murray called it a thoroughly created piece of work . . . wrought of language, built not from any personal experience,...
Textual Production Julia Kristeva
JK issued in three successive volumes what she calls a triptych: Le génie féminin: La Vie, la folie, les mots: Hannah Arendt , Melanie Klein , Colette.
Kristeva, Julia. “Is There a Feminine Genius?”. Critical Inquiry, Vol.
30
, No. 3, pp. 493-04.
493 and n1
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
Textual Production Penelope Mortimer
Besides reviewing television, PM wrote both plays and screenplays for the small screen. She adapted for television both Colette 's Ripening Seed (a novel, translated into English by Roger Senhouse , about a teenage boy's...
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...
Literary responses Michèle Roberts
MR thought the reviews of this first book wonderful,
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
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because [y]ou couldn't have asked for a richer range.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
160
That range, however, spanned male voices complaining of shrieking Lesbian banshees
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
153
and a...
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, 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...
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...
Literary responses Sappho
This inspired, among others, Amy Levy ,
Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xviii
, No. 12, pp. 13-14.
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Michael Field , Natalie Barney , Renée Vivien , and Colette .
Travel Violet Trefusis
VT marked her forty-third birthday with a party at the Eiffel Tower; Colette and other guests wore period costumes from the time of the Tower's inauguration on 31 March 1889.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
267
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
The Princesse hosted a salon at 57 Avenue Henri-Martin attended by Anna de Noailles , Cocteau , Paul Valéry , and Proust , who incorporated some of his perceptions of the gatherings into A la...
Friends, Associates Una Troubridge
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.
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Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT began translating from French by the summer of 1924, when she started working on Charles Pettit 's Le fils du grand eunuque (1920). In 1927, on her own, without a publisher's backing, she began...
Textual Features Una Troubridge
UT wrote much of her 1914 diary in Italian. After 1915, her diaries document her relationship with Radclyffe Hall , touching on the two women's health, families, travels, and social activities. She also writes about...
Performance of text Una Troubridge
The Stage Society produced UT 's theatrical version of Colette 's Chéri at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf.
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Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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