Eugénie de Guérin (; 29 January 1805 – 31 May 1848) was a French writer and the sister of the poet
Maurice de Guérin.
Her ''Journals'' (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her ''Lettres'' (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. In her case
mysticism
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assumed a form more strictly religious, and she continued to mourn her brother's loss of his early Catholic faith. Five years older than he, she cherished a love for him which was blended with a somewhat motherly anxiety. After his death she began the collection and publication of the scattered fragments of his writings. She died, however, before her task was completed.
See
Sainte-Beuve, ''Causeries du lundi'' (vol. xii.) and ''Nouveaux Lundis'' (vol. iii.); G Merlet, ''Causeries sur les femmes et les hIres'' (Paris, 1865); Selden, ''L'Esprit des femmes de notre temps'' (Paris, 1864); Marelle, ''Eugénie et Maurice de Guérin'' (Berlin, 1869);
Harriet Parr, ''M. and E. de Guérin'', a monograph (London, 1870); and
Matthew Arnold's essays on Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin, in his ''Essays in Criticism''.
References
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Suggested reading
* Guérin, Eugénie de. ''Journal of Eugénie de Guérin.'' 1865. Ed. G.S. Trébutien. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2005.
* Raoul, Valerie. "Women's Diaries as Life-Savings: Who Decides Whose Life is Saved? The Journals of Eugénie de Guérin and
Elisabeth Leseur." ''Biography'' 24:1 (Winter 2001): 140–151.
* Summers, Mary. ''Eugénie de Guérin: A Life of Reaction.'' Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
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1805 births
1848 deaths
French religious writers
Women diarists
Women religious writers
19th-century French women writers
19th-century French diarists