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Allart, Hortense (1801 - 1879)

Short name Allart, Hortense
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/95297036/
First name Hortense
Birth name Allart
Married name
Alternative name Hortense Allart de Méritens
Date of birth 1801
Date of death 1879
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Sex Female
Place of birth Milano
Place of death Île-de-France (region)
Lived in France
Place of residence notes
Mother Gay, Mary
Father Allart, Gabriel
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Allart, Hortense was ...
sibling Allart, Sophie
family: non-household Gay, Delphine
correspondent Sand, George (pseudonym)
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Place(s) of Residence France
Author of
receptions circulations
L'Indienne (1833) 0 0
Lettre à G. Sand 1833 (1833)
is also a reception: comments on work Indiana
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Settimia (1836) 2 0
La femme et la démocratie de nos temps (1836) 1 0
*Lettre à George Sand (1847)
is also a reception: comments on work Lucrezia Floriani
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Les enchantements de Madame Prudence de Saman l'Esbatx (1872) 2 0

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Receptions of Allart, Hortense, the person

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

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*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
Sophie Allart, portrait of her sister Hortense Allart, probably in Romein 1829, maison de Chateaubriand Vallée-Aux-Loups None is portrait of

- 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
- 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.
- Wikipedia

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
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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)

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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)