Gay, Delphine (1804 - 1855)
| Short name | Gay, Delphine |
|---|---|
| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/24601979/ |
| First name | Delphine |
| Birth name | Gay |
| Married name | |
| 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 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Aachen |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Lived in | Germany , Italy , France , Paris |
| Place of residence notes |
| Mother | Gay, Sophie |
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| Father | |
| Children | |
| Religion / ideology | |
| Education | |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
| 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 |
Author of
| receptions | circulations | |
|---|---|---|
| Amelia or the distress'd wife: a history founded on real circumstances . By a private gentlewoman. (1751) | 1 | 0 |
| Le lorgnon (1831) | 2 | 0 |
| Le Marquis de Pontanges (1835) | 1 | 0 |
| La Canne de M. de Balzac (1836) | 1 | 0 |
| Judith, tragédie en 3 actes (1843) | 1 | 0 |
| Lettres parisiennes (1843) | 3 | 0 |
| C'est la faute du mari: proverbe en un acte et en vers, (1851) | 2 | 0 |
| Marguerite, ou Deux amours (1853) | 3 | 0 |
| Le chapeau d'un horloger (1854) | 3 | 0 |
| La joie fait peur (1854) | 8 | 0 |
| Lady Tartuffe (1855~) | 3 | 0 |
| Le fiancé de Lenora (1855~) | 1 | 0 |
| Le malheur d' être belle (1855~) | 1 | 0 |
| La croix de Berny: roman steeple-chase / Mme Émile de Girardin, Théophile Gautier, Jules Sandeau, Méry (1855) | 1 | 0 |
| Poésies complètes (1856) | 0 | 0 |
| La fille de millionaire. Comédie en trois actes et en prose (1858) | 1 | 0 |
| El palacio de la vanidad (1896) | 0 | 0 |
Editor of
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-Circulations of Gay, Delphine, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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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 | - |
| Het slot Goczijn. Uit de papieren eener vrouw […] | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1842 | - |
| *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 | - |
| *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 | - |
| *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 | - |
| *Mention in Art. in De Gids | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1888 | - |
| 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 [...]".
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Translations into Danish and Swedish cf. list 1.
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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