Germaine de Staël (1766 - 1817)

Short name Germaine de Staël
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First name Germaine
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Alternative name Anne Louise Germaine Necker baronne de Staël-Holstein , Madame de Stael
Date of birth 1766
Date of death 1817
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Place of birth Paris
Place of death Paris
Lived in Stockholm , Roma (ITA) , London , Switzerland , France , Saint-Petersburg (RUS) , Weimar (DEU) , Surrey (region, ENG)
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Related to Dorothea Schlegel , Louise de Broglie Countess d'Haussonville , Claire de Duras , Amelia Opie , Benjamin Constant , Karoline Pichler , Jeanne Françoise Récamier , Albertine Necker de Saussure , Suzanne Curchod , Rosalie de Constant , Jacques Necker , Frances Burney
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Briquet 1804 - Carton 1886 - Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes 103, 190, Causeries du Lundi, XIII, 208 (Jose Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.78 et p.81) - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[She] argues that philosophical study and religious sentiment are the key resources of the individual and society". - van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, 145 157 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 653, 731, 764, 766, 769-70, 805. - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - Diesbach, Gh. De, Madame de Staël. Paris, 1983. - Guillemin, H., Madame de Staël et Napoléon. Paris, 1987 - Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005. - Nicole Pellegrin (ed.), Histoire d’historiennes. PUSE, 2006. (art. N.Z.Davis)
Provisional Notes Problems: works / receptions mixed up, svdmay10 Father: Jacques Necker Paralyzed by the end of her life. Number of children : 4 (2 sons, Auguste Louis, Albert ; 1 daughter, Gustavina ; 1 daughter illegitimate? ; 1 son illegitimate) Married (1786), liaison with Benjamin Constant, widowed, remarried (1816) to Rocca. KLK 1904 KLK 1915 MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.73: novels containing “fem.”message
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Place(s) of Residence Stockholm , Roma (ITA) , London , Switzerland , France , Saint-Petersburg (RUS) , Weimar (DEU) , Surrey (region, ENG)
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