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Cottin, Sophie (1770 - 1807)

Last edited by Floor_Toebes on May 26, 2025, 3:51 p.m.
Short name Cottin, Sophie
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/27159707
First name Sophie
Birth name Cottin
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Alternative name Sophie Ristaud
Date of birth 1770
Date of death 1807
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Sex Female
Place of birth Tonneins
Place of death Paris
Lived in France
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Pierre-François Bertonnier, portrait of Sophie Cottin, 1824.
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Claire d'Albe (1799) 13 1
Malvina (1800) 17 4
Amélie Mansfield (1803) 12 3
Mathilde, ou mémoires tirés de l'histoire des croisades (1805) 21 3
Elisabeth ou les exilés de Sibérie (1806) 20 2
La prise de Jericho, ou la pécheresse convertie (1806) 4 0
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Circulations of Cottin, Sophie, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Cottin, Sophie, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
*Article dans Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 is biography of
*Art. in Algemene Konst- en Letterbode Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1816 comments on person
Pierre-François Bertonnier, portrait of Sophie Cottin, 1824. 1824 is portrait of
*Art. in De Recensent Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1830 -
*Mention in art. in Letterkundig Magazijn Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1832 -
*Art. on: Froukje Herbig: De arme luitenant en zijn huisgezin, in: Bijdragen tot boeken- en mensenkennis P.S. Schulte 1834 -
*art. on: Froukje Herbig: De arme luitenant en zijn huisgezin P.S. Schulte 1834 -
*Art. in Vaderlandse Letteroefeningen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1837 -
*art. in Algemeen Letterlievend Maandschrift Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1837 -
Fru Hanna Winsnes som Forfatterinde Mrs Hanna Winsnes as Authoress Sundt, Christian Ulrik 1849 -
Over het wezen des romans […] Johannes Germanus Gunning, jr. 1851 -
*Mention in schoolbook Pierson, Allard 1872 comments on person
Journal Frères Goncourt 1880 comments on person
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 is biography of

MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Pléiade,1575-6
- Mauzi, Précis (1990): Ecriture passionnée. Thèmes du viol et du suicide. Elle s'interroge sur la légitime insatisfaction de jeunes épouses mariées à des hommes trop agés.
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[...] her five novels, which were very popular, are sentimental in the extreme".
- van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, 442

Cf.
- Margaret Cohen, The sentimental education of the novel. Princeton, 1999.

Cohen, 29, 38, 76 etc.
svd jul08
She was translated into Czech in 1830, but I could not enter the data because of a technical problem. ust oct 2010.

Married (1790), widowed (1793), when she was 23 years old.

KLK 1904