Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bucknell University Press

  2.  Charrière’s known work has been collected in Oeuvres complètes d’Isabelle de Charrière/Belle de Zuylen, ed. Jean-Daniel Candaux et al. (Amsterdam: G.A. van Oorschot; Geneva: Slatkine, 1979–1984), 10 vols. (henceforth cited OC, by volume and page). I have translated into English all the OC’s many letters/works that exist only in the original French, the separate Dönhoff letters, and secondary sources in French.

  3.  The letters to Dönhoff, in the archive of Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek in Utrecht (Utrechts Archief, 347–1: archives van Hardenbroek), are printed in the original French only in Kees van Strien and Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, “Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière et le Comte de Dönhoff,” Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France 104, no. 2 (2004): 475–483. Charrière’s distant cousin Hardenbroek copied the letters and preserved them along with other material, including unpublished original work of hers and copies of his own letters to her: e.g., his rejected marriage proposal to her. Dönhoff’s 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 parents’ permission; he was engaged to another Englishwoman, who confronted him at his chateau. Nimègue’s burgermeister reported that Dönhoff, caught as a near-bigamist, committed suicide. See van Strien and van Strien-Chardonneau, “Belle,” 475. Belle’s father’s December 11, 1764, letter to Boswell refers to Dönhoff’s death but says simply it “is not to be wondered at,” implying his libertinage led to his death: see James Boswell, Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764, Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide), ed. Frederick A. Pottle (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952), 324–25 (henceforth cited Boswell).

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