Madame de Staël
Her Friends, and her Influence in Politics and Literature

This three-volume study, translated into English and published in 1889, illuminates the life of a renowned author, intellectual and salonnière.

Charlotte Blennerhassett (Author), Jane Eliza Gordon Cumming (Translated by)

9781108059879, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 April 2013

624 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg

An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843–1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the English translation of 1889 by J. E. Gordon Cumming. Madame de Staël (1766–1817), an intellectual in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, was ranked by Auguste Comte as being among the 'great men' of the era. A novelist, salonnière, literary and social critic, and follower of Rousseau, she became keenly involved in the opposition to Louis XVI. Volume 3 of Blennerhassett's authoritative study covers Madame de Staël's life from the early years of the nineteenth century through to her death. It includes a fascinating account of her journey to Weimar and friendships with Goethe and Schiller, her travels in Italy, her return to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon and her acquaintance with the Duke of Wellington.

1. Goethe and Madame de Staël
2. Madame de Staël in Berlin
3. The winter of 1806 in Geneva
4. Benjamin Constant's marriage
5. Madame de Staël's early religious views
6. Arrival in Sweden
7. The restoration
Epilogue
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]