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Agoult, Marie d' (1805 - 1876)

Last edited by Tessa_vanWijk on July 15, 2025, 9:53 a.m.
Short name Agoult, Marie d'
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First name Marie
Birth name de Flavigny
Married name , d'Agoult
Alternative name Daniel Stern — Marie de Flavigny
Date of birth 1805
Date of death 1876
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Frankfurt am Main (Hessen)
Place of death Paris
Lived in Italy , France
Place of residence notes
Henri Lehmann, Portrait de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, 1843, Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology
Education Convent education
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Franz Liszt 1835-1844 Living together
Agoult, Charles Louis Constant d’ 1827-1835 Married
Profession(s)
Memberships
Place(s) of Residence Italy , France
Circulations of Agoult, Marie d', the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Agoult, Marie d', the person

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

Title Author Date Type
Lettre à Marie d'Agoult 1850 comments on person
*Mention in letter 18551018 to Potgieter Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida 1855 -
*Letter 1855 to Potgieter (about Marie d'Agoult) Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida 1855 comments on person
*Letter 18550819 (mentioning d'Agoult) to Potgieter Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida 1855 -
*Letter to Schotel (about Marie d'Agoult) Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida 1855 comments on person
*Correspondence D'Agoult - Bosboom-Toussaint Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida 1856 comments on person
*Dedication to D'Agoult of: Poésie. Prométhée. A Daniel Stern. Ackermann, Louise 1866 is dedicated to
Feuilleton. Beroemde vrouwen van onzen tijd Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1875 comments on person
*Art. by Dr. C.M. Vos on George Sand in Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen C.M. Vos 1876 -
*art. on D. Stern Amstel, C. van 1877 is obituary of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids *Mention in Art. in De Gids Boissevain, Charles 1878 -
Journal Frères Goncourt 1880 comments on person
*Biographie de Mme d Agoult (materiel pour) Krinitz, Elise 1880 is biography of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack 1884 -
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids on Frans Liszt Henricus Anastasius Viotta 1886 -
Daniel Stern Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
*Mention in: Ensaios de psicologia feminina Maria Cláudia de Campos, 1901 -
Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 is biography of
Henri Lehmann, Portrait de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, 1843, Musée Carnavalet, Paris None is portrait of

MENTIONED IN:
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886
- Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Beauvoir, Deuxième sexe, 1949 (ed.Folio 1976, p. 549, 556, 558, 564, 577)
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Although she was wary of Saint Simonian feminism, there is evidence of a feminist conciousness at work in at least two of her texts, Essai sur la liberté (1847) and Esquisses morales (1849) in which she denounces sexual inequality and argues for feminine emancipation through education". "Barbey d'Aurevilley described her as a 'intellectual Amazon, devoid of not one but two breasts' and as a 'traitor to her sex'".
Cf.
- Stephens 133/4
- Correspondance générale, éd. Charles F. Dupêchez (Slatkine 2003): t. I 1821-36 - Correspondance / Marie d’Agoult, George Sand ; édition établie, présentée et annotée par Charles F. Dupêchez, Paris, Bartillat, 1995.
- Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005.
- Phyllis Stock-Morton, “Daniel Stern, historian”, in Karen Offen (ed.), Women in European Culture and Society, special issue of History of European Ideas 8 (1987), p.489-501.
- Linda L. Clark, Women and Achievement in 19th-C Europe, CUP, 2008, pp. 52-3, 59, 163
- Marie Octave Monod, Daniel Stern, Comtesse d’Agoult. De la Restauration à la IIIe République, etc. [With plates, including portraits.], pp. 313, Paris, 1937.
- Alfred De Vigny, Emile Ollivier, Princesse De Belgiojoso, De Mme D’Agoult et de Liszt : ), Paris, Grasset, 1941

Married to comte d'Agoult, 2 daughters (Louise, Claire)
Lived together with Franz Liszt. 3 children (Blandine, Cosima, Daniel)

Salonnière (Clark 59)
Connections with women authors:
- George Sand, who encouraged her (Clark 52)
- Bosboom-Toussaint (letters exchanged -Reeser, Briefwiss., 1990, 82)

Living by her pen (Stephens 134)

Ms letters in Royal Library The Hague (corr. with Grovestins)

Cf. Cohen 1999, p. 121

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Talvart-Place, Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française (1801-1927), 1928

Checked with CERL

MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.99: rearticulating feminist claims