Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de (1746 - 1830)
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| Short name | Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/71391471/ |
| First name | Stéphanie Félicité |
| Birth name | du Crest de Saint-Aubin |
| Married name | |
| Alternative name | Madame de Sillery — Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité du Crest de Saint Aubin — Madame de Brulart — Marquise de Sillery — Clémence de G. |
| Date of birth | 1746 |
| Date of death | 1830 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Champcéri |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Lived in | Berlin , England , Paris , France |
| Place of residence notes |
| Mother | Saint-Aubin, Marie-Françoise-Félicité Mauguet de Mézières |
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| Father | Saint-Aubin, Pierre-César Du Crest de |
| Children | |
| Religion / ideology | Catholic |
| Education | Educated at home |
| Aristocratic title | comtesse |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
| Genlis, Charles-Axelis de | 1763-1793 | Married |
| related to | Fleurieu, Aglaé de (comtesse ) |
| related to | Bouée, Marie-Elisabeth |
| family: non-household | Montesson, Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou |
| related to | Bradi, Agathe-Pauline Caylac de Ceylan |
| related to | Chastenay, Victorine de |
| related to | Montolieu, Isabelle de |
| related to | Helen Maria Williams |
| Profession(s) | Writer , Salonnière , Teacher/governess |
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| Memberships | |
| Place(s) of Residence | Berlin , England , Paris , France |
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MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Montferrand, Femmes célèbres, 1843
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886
- Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886
- Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, III, 22, 25, 28 (Jose Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.79 n.7, p.84 n. 24 et n. 26 )
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Buck, Guide to women's writing, 1992: "Her fictional writing is far less insipid and derivative than hostile critics have suggested".
Cf.
- Jean Harmand, Mme de Genlis, sa vie intime et politique (Paris: 1912)
- Jean Harmand, A Keeper of Royal Secrets, the Private and Political Life of Madame de Genlis (London: Nash, 1913)
- Violet Wyndham, Madame de Genlis: a Biography (London: Andre Deutsch, 1958)
- Laborde, A.M., L'oeuvre de Mme de Genlis. Paris, 1966.
- Broglie, G. de, Madame de Genlis. Paris, 1985.
- Denise Yim, The unpublished correspondence of Mme de Genlis and Margaret Chinnery and related documents in the Chinnery family papers, SVEC 2003: 02.
- Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005.
- Nicole Pellegrin (ed.), Histoire d’historiennes. PUSE, 2006.
Champcéri (Bourgogne) 25-01-1746 - Paris 31-12-1830.
Married 1763; separated 1782.
2 daughters, 1 son.
Also lived in Berlin and Hamburg.
KLK 1904
KLK 1915
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.45ss: feminist consciousness