Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century by unknow
Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
â â 2.â â Charrièreâs known work has been collected in Oeuvres complètes dâIsabelle de Charrière/Belle de Zuylen, ed. Jean-Daniel Candaux et al. (Amsterdam: G.A. van Oorschot; Geneva: Slatkine, 1979â1984), 10 vols. (henceforth cited OC, by volume and page). I have translated into English all the OCâs many letters/works that exist only in the original French, the separate Dönhoff letters, and secondary sources in French.
â â 3.â â The letters to Dönhoff, in the archive of Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek in Utrecht (Utrechts Archief, 347â1: archives van Hardenbroek), are printed in the original French only in Kees van Strien and Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, âBelle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière et le Comte de Dönhoff,â Revue dâhistoire littéraire de la France 104, no. 2 (2004): 475â483. Charrièreâs distant cousin Hardenbroek copied the letters and preserved them along with other material, including unpublished original work of hers and copies of his own letters to her: e.g., his rejected marriage proposal to her. Dönhoffâs name appears only once in her letters, in a 1764 letter to a friend commenting briefly that Dönhoff is dead; circumstances are not discussed. He had eloped with and married an English teenager without her parentsâ permission; he was engaged to another Englishwoman, who confronted him at his chateau. Nimègueâs burgermeister reported that Dönhoff, caught as a near-bigamist, committed suicide. See van Strien and van Strien-Chardonneau, âBelle,â 475. Belleâs fatherâs December 11, 1764, letter to Boswell refers to Dönhoffâs death but says simply it âis not to be wondered at,â implying his libertinage led to his death: see James Boswell, Boswell in Holland, 1763â1764, Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide), ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952), 324â25 (henceforth cited Boswell).
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Belgium | France |
Germany | Great Britain |
Greenland | Italy |
Netherlands | Romania |
Scandinavia |
Room 212 by Kate Stewart(4113)
The Crown by Robert Lacey(4113)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing(3852)
The Iron Duke by The Iron Duke(3649)
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang(3525)
Killing England by Bill O'Reilly(3459)
Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon(3266)
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe(3068)
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson(2845)
Hitler's Monsters by Eric Kurlander(2736)
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness(2725)
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography by Thatcher Margaret(2688)
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir(2680)
Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten(2650)
Blood and Sand by Alex Von Tunzelmann(2611)
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum(2468)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell(2398)
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr(2350)
Book of Life by Deborah Harkness(2269)