Hortense Allart (1801 - 1879)

Short name Hortense Allart
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First name Hortense
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Alternative name Hortense Allart de Méritens
Date of birth 1801
Date of death 1879
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Place of death France
Lived in France
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Related to Marie-Françoise Allart
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Larnac 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[her] romantic liaisons have proved greater interest to critics than her literary and historical writings". "She subscribed to the feminist Gazette des femmes [...] and argued in La femme et la démocratie de notre temps, in favour of free love and an improvement in the status of women". - Offen, European Feminisms, 2000, p. 98 Cf. - Helynne Hollstein Hansen. Hortense Allart: The Woman and the Novelist. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. - Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005. - Margaret Cohen, The sentimental education of the novel. Princeton, 1999.
Provisional Notes NOT MENTIONED IN: Talvart-Place, Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française (1801-1927), 1928. Cohen 13, 136, 142, 161 svdjul08 No translations into Dutch, according to NCC/Picarta svdmar10 Biographical information mainly from Hollstein Hansen (1998). Place of birth : Milan [?]; Paris [according to Carton] Also lived in Herblay and Saint-Germain. Died in Monthléry. 2 sons. places where lived: Coppet, Genève (CHE) Firenze (ITA) Geneva (CHE) London (ENG) Milano (ITA) Paris (FRA) Roma (ITA) -- Was she upper class? Check! -- A propos d'une lettre de GS à Ste Beuve 5-4-1848 VIII 386: note de Lubin sur liste publiée dans Courrier français du 29 juillet 1848 de personnes recevant des pensions où figurent e.a. Mme Ancelot, Louise Colet, Desbordes-Valmore, Allart, Mélanie Waldor, Amable Tastu, Elise Voïart, de Bawr, et en tant que veuves ou orphelines Helmina de Chézy, Mlle Flaugergues. (svd jul08)
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Spouse de Méritens, Hortense
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