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good taste”. I will be using the tool ''WomenWriters.nl'' to trace the translations, especially by Karamzin, of works by Madame de Genlis in Russia, in comparison with Germany and England. This is a way to show the extent of the integration of Russia’s literary market with the European market more broadly. <br><br> good taste”. I will be using the tool ''WomenWriters.nl'' to trace the translations, especially by Karamzin, of works by Madame de Genlis in Russia, in comparison with Germany and England. This is a way to show the extent of the integration of Russia’s literary market with the European market more broadly. <br><br>
 +'''*Amelia Sanz:'''<br>
 +'''*Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis in Spain from 19th to 20th century.'''<br><br>
 +With a group of students we have already explored the testimonies of Genlis’ reception in the 19th-century Spanish press, working with digitized newspapers we find in the two main Virtual Newspapers Libraries in Spain. We will now make a step forward to reach a very interesting translation of Genlis’ ''La Duchesse de la Vallière'', the only one of these novels to be translated in
 +Spanish: ''La duquesa de la Vallière, la voluptuosa'' (Madrid, 1925), a volume which was part of the “Women in love” collection at the beginning of the 20th century. We will study this translation and its reception in the contemporary Spanish press, comparing with references to Mme de Genlis all over the 19th century.
In 2002, the year before the opening of Chawton House Library, as a research collection and centre for research in women’s writing of the long eighteenth century, a call for papers was sent out from the University of Southampton and Chawton House Library inviting proposals for an international conference to be held in July 2003. The resulting presentations focused on the rich field for the study of women writers and their careers, celebrating the range of women whose writing was seen as key to, as the original call for papers put it, ‘the early shaping of our tangled modernity’. For three days, distinguished colleagues and scholars reflected on and debated the state of the field.<br><br> In 2002, the year before the opening of Chawton House Library, as a research collection and centre for research in women’s writing of the long eighteenth century, a call for papers was sent out from the University of Southampton and Chawton House Library inviting proposals for an international conference to be held in July 2003. The resulting presentations focused on the rich field for the study of women writers and their careers, celebrating the range of women whose writing was seen as key to, as the original call for papers put it, ‘the early shaping of our tangled modernity’. For three days, distinguished colleagues and scholars reflected on and debated the state of the field.<br><br>

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The International Circulation of Women’s Writings




The International Circulation of Women’s Writings:
the Case of Stéphanie de Genlis as Received in Several European Countries

Organizers / Chairs: Suzan van Dijk and Francesca Scott

*Francesca Scott and Suzan van Dijk:
*Brief introduction presenting the Digital Tool and an Interesting Case (Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis).

The WomenWriters database was used during the last decade as the common framework in which researchers from over 20 countries stored data concerning the production and reception of publications by women authors. Developed now, thanks to CLARIN-NL funding, into a Virtual Research Environment, there will be more opportunities for studying on a large-scale the role of female authorship and also the presence in the whole Europe of a number of interesting women.
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis is one of those. A brief insight is given in one of her novels : La Duchesse de La Vallière (1804) incorporates an interesting narrative topos, potentially “female” by the way in which it is handled: a concealed pregnancy followed by an explicit childbirth scene – possibly a kind of "punishment" for the woman’s transgression. It is obviously a challenge for translators.

*Hilde Hoogenboom:
*Madame de Genlis in Russia, England and Germany.

Around 1800, Genlis was the most popular French writer in Russia, England, and Germany. Russian library and master catalogs show 87 titles and editions and 148 serial publications from 1779 to 1871. Approximately 90 translations, reprinted three times (1816, 1822, 1835), belong to Karamzin. Genlis’s popularity prompted a prolonged backlash. Pushkin and Belinsky criticized her; as late as 1900, the bibliographer Semen Vengerov still vilified her influence: “The works of Genlis were translated in Russia to such an unheard-of extent that in a way they turned into a domestic hazard to good taste”. I will be using the tool WomenWriters.nl to trace the translations, especially by Karamzin, of works by Madame de Genlis in Russia, in comparison with Germany and England. This is a way to show the extent of the integration of Russia’s literary market with the European market more broadly.

*Amelia Sanz:
*Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis in Spain from 19th to 20th century.

With a group of students we have already explored the testimonies of Genlis’ reception in the 19th-century Spanish press, working with digitized newspapers we find in the two main Virtual Newspapers Libraries in Spain. We will now make a step forward to reach a very interesting translation of Genlis’ La Duchesse de la Vallière, the only one of these novels to be translated in Spanish: La duquesa de la Vallière, la voluptuosa (Madrid, 1925), a volume which was part of the “Women in love” collection at the beginning of the 20th century. We will study this translation and its reception in the contemporary Spanish press, comparing with references to Mme de Genlis all over the 19th century.

In 2002, the year before the opening of Chawton House Library, as a research collection and centre for research in women’s writing of the long eighteenth century, a call for papers was sent out from the University of Southampton and Chawton House Library inviting proposals for an international conference to be held in July 2003. The resulting presentations focused on the rich field for the study of women writers and their careers, celebrating the range of women whose writing was seen as key to, as the original call for papers put it, ‘the early shaping of our tangled modernity’. For three days, distinguished colleagues and scholars reflected on and debated the state of the field.

Ten years on, in July 2013, Chawton House Library will celebrate the anniversary of its opening. With the University of Southampton, and the University of Kent, we invite colleagues to reflect on all aspects of the writing of women of the long eighteenth century. We are particularly interested in papers that celebrate the achievements of the last decade since the opening conference in 2003, as well as papers that map new directions, and reflect upon the work still to be done in the writing of women’s literary history.


In this conference there will be a COST-WWIH panel, entitled:

The Transnational Reception of Women Writers (Friday 5 July, 9.30)




There will also be other COST-WWIH members participating in this conference:

  • Gillian Dow:
    • chairing session 9d: Women Translators and Translated Women


SvD, July 2015




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