Marie d'Agoult (1805 - 1876)

Short name Marie d'Agoult
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First name Marie
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Alternative name Daniel Stern , Marie de Flavigny
Date of birth 1805
Date of death 1876
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Sex Female
Place of birth Frankfurt am Main (Hessen)
Place of death Paris
Lived in Italy , France
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Related to Marie Colban , Caroline d'Alton Jaubert , Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso , Anna Louisa Geertruida Toussaint , Sand, George
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Beauvoir, Deuxième sexe, 1949 (ed.Folio 1976, p. 549, 556, 558, 564, 577) - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Although she was wary of Saint Simonian feminism, there is evidence of a feminist conciousness at work in at least two of her texts, Essai sur la liberté (1847) and Esquisses morales (1849) in which she denounces sexual inequality and argues for feminine emancipation through education". "Barbey d'Aurevilley described her as a 'intellectual Amazon, devoid of not one but two breasts' and as a 'traitor to her sex'". Cf. - Stephens 133/4 - Correspondance générale, éd. Charles F. Dupêchez (Slatkine 2003): t. I 1821-36 - Correspondance / Marie d’Agoult, George Sand ; édition établie, présentée et annotée par Charles F. Dupêchez, Paris, Bartillat, 1995. - Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005. - Phyllis Stock-Morton, “Daniel Stern, historian”, in Karen Offen (ed.), Women in European Culture and Society, special issue of History of European Ideas 8 (1987), p.489-501. - Linda L. Clark, Women and Achievement in 19th-C Europe, CUP, 2008, pp. 52-3, 59, 163 - Marie Octave Monod, Daniel Stern, Comtesse d’Agoult. De la Restauration à la IIIe République, etc. [With plates, including portraits.], pp. 313, Paris, 1937. - Alfred De Vigny, Emile Ollivier, Princesse De Belgiojoso, De Mme D’Agoult et de Liszt : ), Paris, Grasset, 1941
Provisional Notes Married to comte d'Agoult, 2 daughters (Louise, Claire) Lived together with Franz Liszt. 3 children (Blandine, Cosima, Daniel) Salonnière (Clark 59) Connections with women authors: - George Sand, who encouraged her (Clark 52) - Bosboom-Toussaint (letters exchanged -Reeser, Briefwiss., 1990, 82) Living by her pen (Stephens 134) Ms letters in Royal Library The Hague (corr. with Grovestins) Cf. Cohen 1999, p. 121 NOT MENTIONED IN: - Talvart-Place, Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française (1801-1927), 1928 Checked with CERL MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.99: rearticulating feminist claims
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Education Convent education
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Spouse Flavigny, Marie de
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Place(s) of Residence Italy , France