Eugénie de Guérin (29 January 1805 – 31 May 1848) was a French writer and the sister of the poet

Maurice de Guérin Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 181019 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by pagan elements. According to Sainte-Beuve, no French poet or ...

. 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

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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 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic. Early life He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he s ...

, ''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);

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, ''M. and E. de Guérin'', a monograph (London, 1870); and

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's essays on Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin, in his ''Essays in Criticism''.

References

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerin, Eugenie de 1805 births 1848 deaths French diarists French religious writers Women diarists Women religious writers 19th-century French women writers 19th-century diarists