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Margaret Crosland (writer)
Margaret McQueen Crosland (later Denis, 17 June 1920 – 3 July 2017) was an English literary biographer and translator. She also used the pen name Leonard de Saint-Yves. Life and career Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire in June 1920, Crosland has translated both French and Italian literature. She has written biographies of Colette, Jean Cocteau, Simone de Beauvoir and Edith Piaf, and translated work by writers including the Marquis de Sade, Émile Zola, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese. She also wrote book-length studies of women's writing in Britain and France. Crosland married Max Denis in January 1950. She died on 3 July 2017, at the age of 97. Works Translations ;;From French * ''The flesh in the mirror'' by Félicien Marceau. Translated from the French ''Chair et cuir''. London: Vision Press, 1953. * (ed. and tr. as Leonard de Saint-Yves) ''Selected writings of de Sade''. London: Peter Owen, 1953. * ''First poems'' by Minou Drouet. London: Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biography In Literature
When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for interpreting literature: literary biography and biographical criticism. Conversely, two genres of fiction rely heavily on the incorporation of biographical elements into their content: biographical fiction and autobiographical fiction. Literary biography A literary biography is the biographical exploration of the lives of writers and artists. Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography. Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the biography but also must incorporate discussion of the subject-author's literary works into the biography itself.Karl, Frederick R. "Joseph Conrad" in Meyers (ed.) ''The Craft'', pp 69–88 Literary biographers must balance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Spearman
Neville Spearman Armstrong (20 October 1913 – September 2008) was a British soldier, literary agent, and publisher. In the 1940s and early 1950s he was in partnerships with others, then from 1955 he operated his own publishing company called Neville Spearman. Early life The son of a tea planter in British Ceylon, Armstrong was born there in 1913. His parents, John Spearman Armstrong and Dora Mary Brooke Booth, only daughter of John Brooke Booth, had married in January 1913 at Colombo. His grandfather, Charles Spearman Armstrong, born in 1847, had been a pioneer in growing tea and cinchona, the source of quinine, and had planted 750 acres of tea on an estate called Rookwood, near Hewaheta.Royston EllisRookwood: memories of a forgotten pioneer ''The Sunday Times'' (Sri Lanka), 7 September 1997, accessed 27 July 2021 When he was five, Armstrong was sent to England to be brought up by an unmarried aunt, while his parents stayed in Ceylon with their other three children. He arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straight Mind and Other Essays'' She published her first novel, ''L'Opoponax'', in 1964. Her second novel, '' Les Guérillères'' (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism. Biography Monique Wittig was born in 1935 in Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, France. In 1950 she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1964 she published her first novel, ''L'Opoponax'' which won her immediate attention in France. After the novel was translated into English, Wittig achieved international recognition. She was one of the founders of the ''Mouvement de libération des femmes'' (MLF) (Women's Liberation Movement). In 1969 she published what is arguably her most influential work, '' Les Guérillères'', which is today considered a revolutionary and controversial so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Guillamin
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *EmÃlio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Livre Blanc
''The White Paper'' ( French: , alternatively ''The White Book'') is a 1928 French novel by Jean Cocteau. It is a pederastic semi-autobiographical novel about Cocteau's life, and centers on an unnamed protagonist developing his sexual identity by having sex with men and watching men have sex with each other. Cocteau never placed his name on the book, but he provided illustrations for some of its editions. Background and publication Jean Cocteau, a French novelist, stayed with his pupil in the south of France for the latter part of 1927. When staying in Chablis later that year, he probably finished writing ''White Paper'', and Desbordes continued writing his debut novel, ''J'Adore''. The details of the novel's writing process are unclear, and Cocteau never claimed the novel as his own. He initially did not want it to be released, writing on his 1928 manuscript: "Not to be published. It should only be published after my death or anonymously in a deluxe edition limited to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Topor
Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish refugees from Warsaw. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo. Biography Roland Topor's parents came to France in the 1930s. In 1941 Topor's father, Abram, along with thousands of other Jewish men living in Paris, were required to register with the Vichy authorities. Topor's father was subsequently arrested and interned in a prison camp at Pithiviers, where inmates would be held before being sent to other concentration camps, usually Auschwitz. Of the thousands who were sent to Pithiviers only 159 survived. But Topor's father, Abram, managed to escape from Pithiviers and hide in an area south of Paris. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghislain De Diesbach
Ghislain de Diesbach de Belleroche (born 6 August 1931 in Le Havre) is a French writer and biographer. Works *1960: ''Iphigénie en Thuringe : nouvelles'', Julliard, Paris *1962: ''Un joli train de vie'', Julliard *1964: ''Favre de Thierrens, essai biographique'', Émile-Paul, Paris ; Preface by André Bonnefous, 1 vol. in-12, 219 pp. and 26 illustrations hors-texte. *1964: ''Les Secrets du Gotha'', Julliard; reprint at , Paris 2012 *1966: ''George III'', Berger-Levrault; Paris *1969: ''Le Grand Mourzouk'', Julliard; reprint at , Versailles, 2015 *1969: ''Le tour de Jules Verne en quatre-vingts livres'', Julliard; reprint under the title ''Le tour de Jules Verne en 80 livres'', Perrin, 2002, *1972: ''Le Gentilhomme de notre temps : manuel des bonnes manières, nouveau traité de savoir-vivre'', Hachette Littérature, Paris *1972: ''Service de France'', Émile-Paul *1975: ''Histoire de l'émigration : 1789-1814'', Bernard Grasset, Paris, *1978: ''Necker ou la Faillite de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécile Arnaud
Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname. People Given name * Ce'cile (Cecile Charlton, born 1976), Jamaican musician * Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), Cameroonian author * Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), retired French film actress and television screenwriter and director * Princess Cécile of Bourbon-Parma (1935–2021), French humanitarian and political activist * Cécile Breccia, French actress * Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1946), French feminist politician * Cécile Bruyère (1845–1909), Benedictine nun * Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), French composer and pianist * Cecile de Brunhoff (1903–2003), French storyteller * Cécile de France (born 1975), Belgian actress * Cecile of France ( 1097–1145), French princess * Cécile Delpirou (born 1964), French politician * Cécile Fatiman ( 1791), voodoo priestess and a figure of the Haitian Revolution * Cécile Guillame (1933–2004), French engraver * Cécile Haussernot (born 1998), French chess player * Cecile H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octave Aubry
Octave Aubry (1 September 1881, Paris – 27 March 1946) was a French novelist and historian. Biography Aubry, Ernest Seillière, Jean Tharaud, René Grousset and Robert d'Harcourt were the five members of the Académie française elected on 1 February 1946, to replace the many vacancies left by the Nazi occupation of Europe. Aubry himself succeeded cardinal Alfred Baudrillart in seat 8, but died a month and a half after his election, the day before he was due to present his reception speech to the Commission de lecture. Education Aubry obtained secondary education from the Lycée Voltaire and the Lycee Charlemagne. After high school Aubry pursued history, reading the great historians of the time like Albert Sorel, Albert Vandal and Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (February 12, 1842 – June 16, 1912) was a French publicist and historian born at Lisieux, Calvados. He specialized in writing about the history of Russia. Biography In 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Bessy
Maurice may refer to: People *Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr *Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor * Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England *Maurice of Carnoet (1117–1191), Breton abbot and saint * Maurice, Count of Oldenburg (fl. 1169–1211) * Maurice of Inchaffray (14th century), Scottish cleric who became a bishop *Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521–1553), German Saxon nobleman *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1551–1612) *Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), stadtholder of the Netherlands *Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel or Maurice the Learned (1572–1632) *Maurice of Savoy (1593–1657), prince of Savoy and a cardinal *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1619–1681) *Maurice of the Palatinate (1620–1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine *Maurice of the Netherlands (1843–1850), prince of Orange-Nassau * Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Mouloudji
Marcel André Mouloudji (16 September 1922 – 14 June 1994) was a French singer and actor who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert. Personal life Mouloudji was born to Algerian Saïd Mouloudji and Breton Eugénie Roux. Mouloudji had two children: Grégory Mouloudji with Lilia Lejpune and Annabelle Mouloudji with Nicolle Tessier. Partial filmography *1936: ''Jenny'' – Le Chanteur des rues *1936: ''La guerre des gosses'' – La Crique *1936: ''Ménilmontant'' – Toto *1937: ''À Venise, une nuit'' – Le jeune Toto *1937: ''Claudine at School'' – Mouloud *1938: '' Mirages'' – Groom *1938: ''Les Disparus de Saint-Agil'' – Philippe Macroix *1938: ''Les gaietés de l'exposition'' *1939: ''L'Entraîneuse'' – Le cancre (uncredited) *1939: ''Le grand élan'' – Pierrot *1941: ''L'Enfer des anges'' – Le jeune Léon *1941: ''Premier bal'' – Le télégraphiste *1942: '' The Strangers in the House'' †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
