Isabelle de Montolieu (1751 - 1832)
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Isabelle de Montolieu was ...
related to | Charrière, Isabelle de |
related to | Marie-Elisabeth Polier |
related to | Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de |
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Place(s) of Residence | Switzerland |
Receptions of Isabelle de Montolieu, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title | Author | Date | Type |
ZZ*Letter commenting Montolieu to Benjamin Constant | Charrière, Isabelle de | 1801 | comments on person |
Article dans le Dictionnaire historique [..] | Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier | 1804 | comments on person |
Notice dans Histoire de la littérature féminine en France | Jean Larnac | 1921 | comments on person |
MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Pléiade, p.1372
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "She is best-known for her translation into French of Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson (1813) to which she wrote a sequel in 1824".
In Querard: La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique .... vol. 6, Paris, 1834 Montolieu is discredited as translator for not knowing very well English and German. Still: "chez Madame de Montolieu les charmes de l'imagination et les richesses du sentiment dédommagent de l'infidélité dans ses versions"
ABR june 2011
Married in 1769, widowed in 1775, remarried in 1786. 2 children, 1 survived (Henri-Antoine).