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Author: Staël, Germaine de

Pseudonyms:
Spouse/other names:Necker, Anne Louise Germaine baronne de Staël-Holstein | Stael, Madame de
Gender:female
Year of birth:1766
Year of death:1817
About her personal situation:Standardizingsvdjan14 Origin • Place of birth : Paris Place(s) of residence: Coppet | London | Paris | Rome | Saint Petersburg | Stockholm | Surrey | Weimar • Place of death: Paris National identity • Nationality : French | Swiss • First language(s) : French Marital status : - married (1786) | liaison (with Benjamin Constant) | widowed | remarried (1816, to Rocca) Number of children : 4 Social class : - Upper class Education: - Not yet checked Religion - Protestant

Countries:France - Switzerland
Languages:French
Relations to other authors:
Cousin of Necker de Saussure, Albertine
Daughter of Curchod, Suzanne
Acquaintance of Burney, Fanny
Acquaintance of Schlegel, Dorothea
Friend of Récamier, Jeanne Françoise
Friend of Opie, Amelia
Acquaintance of Pichler, Karoline

About her professional situation:standardizingjul12jdg: Authorial attribution: - Not yet checked Profession(s) and activities : - contributor to periodical press - fiction writer - historian - salonnière - traveller Languages in which she wrote : - French Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Benjamin Constant Financial aspects of her career: - Not yet checked Memberships : unknown
Elements of bibliography:MENTIONED IN: - Briquet 1804 - Carton 1886 - Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes 103, 190, Causeries du Lundi, XIII, 208 (Jose Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.78 et p.81) - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[She] argues that philosophical study and religious sentiment are the key resources of the individual and society". - van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, 145 157 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 653, 731, 764, 766, 769-70, 805. - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - Diesbach, Gh. De, Madame de Staël. Paris, 1983. - Guillemin, H., Madame de Staël et Napoléon. Paris, 1987 - Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle. Le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846. Toulouse 2005. - Nicole Pellegrin (ed.), Histoire d’historiennes. PUSE, 2006. (art. N.Z.Davis)
Websites: Madame de Staël et le Groupe de Coppet
SIEFAR: Briquet
Germaine de Staël on Wikipedia
NEWW contribution Belgrade 2011 N. Pohl
NEWW contribution Madrid 2010 T. Steinfeld

Editors: Chawton2008 (update on 12 December 2009)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 09 May 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 10 May 2010)
Emma van den Eijnde (update on 22 May 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 07 January 2012)
Janouk de Groot (update on 13 July 2012)
Tanja Badalic (update on 22 August 2012)
Astrid Kulsdom (update on 19 September 2012)
Astrid Kulsdom (update on 19 September 2012)
Gudrun Wedel (update on 04 May 2013)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 28 January 2014)

Works written by this author

E 1 *Germaine de Staël, the author ()
E 2 Adélaïde et Théodore (1795)
E 3 Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution française (1818)
E 4 Corinne ou l'Italie (1807)
E 5 De l'Allemagne (1813)
E 6 De l'esprit des traductions (1816)
E 7 De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations (1796)
E 8 De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (1800)
E 9 Delphine (1802)
E 10 Dix années d'exil (1821)
E 11 Essai sur les fictions (1795)
E 12 Histoire de Pauline (1795)
E 13 Lettres de Nanine à Sinphal ()
E 14 Lettres sur le caractère et les écrits de J.-J. Rousseau ()
E 15 Manuscrits de Mr Necker, publiées par la Fille (1804)
E 16 Mirza ou lettre d'un voyageur (1795)
E 17 Mémoires sur la vie privée de mon père (1818)
E 18 Recueil de morceaux détachés (1795)
E 19 Réflexions sur le procès de la reine par une femme (1793)
E 20 Réflexions sur le suicide (1813)
E 21 Sophie ou les sentiments secrets ()
E 22 Zulma (1796)
E 23 Œuvres complètes de Madame la baronne de Staël (1820)

Authors read by this author

Xreception 1 Austen, Jane   -   Pride and Prejudice
Xreception 2 Bouée, Marie-Elisabeth   -   *Marie-Elisabeth Bouée, the author
Xreception 3 Burney, Fanny   -   Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an heiress
Xreception 4 Charrière, Isabelle de   -   Lettres Neuchâteloises
Xreception 5 Charrière, Isabelle de   -   Caliste, ou continuation des lettres écrites de Lausanne
Xreception 6 Charrière, Isabelle de   -   Lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés
Xreception 7 Charrière, Isabelle de   -   Lettres écrites de Lausanne
Xreception 8 Charrière, Isabelle de   -   Lettres de Mistriss Henley, publiées par son amie
Xreception 9 Edgeworth, Maria   -   Castle Rackrent
Xreception 10 Edgeworth, Maria   -   Ennui and Manoeuvering
Xreception 11 Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de   -   La Princesse de Clèves
Xreception 12 Morelli Fernandez, Maria Maddalena   -   *Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez, the author
Xreception 13 Riccoboni, Marie-Jeanne   -   Oeuvres de Riccoboni
Xreception 14 Teotochi-Albrizzi, Isabella   -   Ritratti
Xreception 15 Wynne, Giustiniana   -   Les Morlaques