Delphine Gay (1804 - 1855)

Short name Delphine Gay
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First name Delphine
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Alternative name Vicomte Charles de Launay , Léa Sepsel , Léo Lespès , Delphine de Girardin , Madame Émile de Girardin
Date of birth 1804
Date of death 1855
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Place of birth Germany
Place of death France
Lived in Germany , Italy , France , Paris
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Related to Marie-Françoise Allart , Sophie Gay , Sand, George
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Moulin, La poésie féminine, 1966, p.275 - Buck, Guide to women's writing, 1992: "Her work is characterized by the spirituality and sensitivity of the early French romantic writing". Cf. - Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi III, 405,406 ,Mes Poissons, Bibliothèque 10/18, p. 110, (José Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p. 79 n.9, p. 81 n.17 et p. 84 n.26) - Margaret Cohen, The sentimental education of the novel. Princeton, 1999.
Provisional Notes Cohen 120: "D. de G. is, to my knowledge, the only female writer whose narratives identify with the realist position [...]". svd jul08 Translations into Danish and Swedish cf. list 1. svdmay10 Aachen 26-01-1804 - Paris 29-06-1855. Married to Émile de Girardin. Lived a.o. in Aachen, Naples, Rome, Paris. French Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Honoré de Balzac - Théophile Gautier - Émile de Girardin (publisher, husband) - Victor Hugo - Lamartine - Jules Sandeau - Joseph Méry KLK 1904 MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.99: rearticulating feminist claims
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Spouse Girardin, Delphine de
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Place(s) of Residence Germany , Italy , France , Paris