Allart, Hortense (1801 - 1879)
| Short name | Allart, Hortense |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/95297036/ |
| First name | Hortense |
| Birth name | Allart |
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| Alternative name | Hortense Allart de Méritens |
| Date of birth | 1801 |
| Date of death | 1879 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Milano |
| Place of death | Île-de-France (region) |
| Lived in | France |
| Place of residence notes |
| Mother | Gay, Mary |
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| Father | Allart, Gabriel |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Allart, Hortense was ...
| sibling | Allart, Sophie |
| family: non-household | Gay, Delphine |
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| Place(s) of Residence | France |
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Receptions of Allart, Hortense, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
| *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
svdmar10
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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Was she upper class? Check!
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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)