Gay, Delphine (1804 - 1855)

Short name Gay, Delphine
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First name Delphine
Birth name Gay
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Alternative name Vicomte Charles de Launay , Léa Sepsel , Léo Lespès , Delphine de Girardin , Madame Émile de Girardin
Date of birth 1804
Date of death 1855
Birth date Notes 26-01-1804
Death date Notes 29-06-1855
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Sex Female
Place of birth Aachen
Place of death Paris
Lived in Germany , Italy , France , Paris
Place of residence notes
Louis Hersent, Portrait of Delphine de Girardin, 1824, château de Versailles.
Mother Gay, Sophie
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Gay, Delphine was ...
family: non-household Gay, Mary
related to Sand, George (pseudonym)
related to Gay, Sophie
family: non-household Allart, Hortense
family: non-household Allart, Sophie
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Place(s) of Residence Germany , Italy , France , Paris
Receptions of Gay, Delphine, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
*Art. in Vaderlandse Letteroefeningen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1837 None
Het slot Goczijn. Uit de papieren eener vrouw […] Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1842 None
*Presented in schoolbook Maatjes, Adrianus Bruinvisch 1852 comments on person
ZZ*Lettre 6517 du 26 déc à Delphine de Girardin Sand, George (pseudonym) 1854 comments on person
*Article à retrouver [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1855 comments on person
ZZ*Art. in La Presse du 24 juillet 1855, reprinted in 'Autour de la table' Sand, George (pseudonym) 1855 comments on person
*Mention of Girardin in Lit. Fant. en Kritieken Literary Fantasies and Critiques Busken Huet, Conrad 1872 None
*Letter to Potgieter, mentioning Girardin Busken Huet, Conrad 1872 comments on person
*Presented in schoolbook Pierson, Allard 1872 comments on person
Feuilleton. Fransche Portretten Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1873 is biography of
*Art. by Dr. C.M. Vos on George Sand in Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen C.M. Vos 1876 None
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
Madame de Girardin Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Oudenaerde, M. van 1887 None
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1888 None
Mme Émile de Girardin J. Desplantes , P. Pouthier 1890 is biography of
*Mention in schoolbook C. Goedeljee 1917 comments on person
*Notice dans Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 comments on person
Louis Hersent, Portrait of Delphine de Girardin, 1824, château de Versailles. None is portrait of
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Moulin, La poésie féminine, 1966, p.275 - Buck, Guide to women's writing, 1992: "Her work is characterized by the spirituality and sensitivity of the early French romantic writing". - Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi III, 405,406 ,Mes Poissons, Bibliothèque 10/18, p. 110, (José Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p. 79 n.9, p. 81 n.17 et p. 84 n.26) - Margaret Cohen, The sentimental education of the novel. Princeton, 1999.
Cohen 120: "D. de G. is, to my knowledge, the only female writer whose narratives identify with the realist position [...]". svd jul08 Translations into Danish and Swedish cf. list 1. svdmay10 Lived a.o. in Aachen, Naples, Rome, Paris. French Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Honoré de Balzac - Théophile Gautier - Émile de Girardin (publisher, husband) - Victor Hugo - Lamartine - Jules Sandeau - Joseph Méry KLK 1904 MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.99: rearticulating feminist claims