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 Eight various collections of her letters have been printed, and many more remain unpublished.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
Textual Production Antonia White
AW 's thirty volumes of translation included especially works by Maupassant and Colette .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eudora Welty
Those reviewed include Margery Allingham Carter , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Colette , Isak Dinesen , Elizabeth Bowen , Katherine Anne Porter , and EW 's close friend Ken Millar
Literary responses Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW 's biographer Claire Harman terms this story extraordinarily delicate . . . at once both worldly and lyrical, reminiscent of Colette , whose writing Sylvia admired.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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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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Textual Production Una Troubridge
UT collaborated again, working with Enid McLeod , on My Mother's House; and Sido, a translation in one volume of both Colette 's La maison de Claudine (a volume of autobiographical sketches) and her...
Friends, Associates Una Troubridge
The couple's circle of friends included many notable women: painter Romaine Brooks , writers Natalie Barney , Violet Hunt , and Iris Tree (daughter of actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), the Duchess Clermont Tonnerre ...
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...
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.
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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...
Literary responses Sappho
This inspired, among others, Amy Levy ,
Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 12, pp. 13-14.
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Michael Field , Natalie Barney , Renée Vivien , and Colette .
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...
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.
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That range, however, spanned male voices complaining of shrieking Lesbian banshees
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
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and a...

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.