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L’Association des Amis de Lucie-Delarue Mardrus possède désormais son site amisldm.org. Elle se donne pour vocation de faire découvrir l’œuvre de cette grande figure littéraire et artistique de la Belle Epoque et des années folles. Musicienne, peintre, sculpteur, écrivain, également scénariste et diariste, cette femme aux multiples talents et aux nombreuses facettes fascine encore aujourd ’hui.
Née à Honfleur en 1874, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus se maria fastueusement avec le traducteur des Mille et une nuits, le célèbre docteur Mardrus. Ce dernier lui ouvrit les portes du monde littéraire qu’elle séduisit rapidement avec des recueils poétiques fameux, Occident, Ferveur, Par vents et marées… Devenue célèbre et même adulée par le monde littéraire parisien, elle diversifie sa production littéraire, écrit des contes, des critiques littéraires et des romans, Le roman des six petites filles, L’Ex voto, Graine au vent… Plus tard, après son divorce, elle peint, sculpte, compose des partitions musicales et des paroles de chansons. Elle meurt en 1945 à Château-Gontier en Mayenne.
Toutes les contributions pour alimenter le site sont les bienvenues. Elles peuvent aborder aussi bien l’écriture de l’auteure que ses nombreux domaines de production. Elles peuvent également explorer de ses relations avec d’autres éminentes figures littéraires et artistiques féminines et masculines de l’époque. Celles-ci sont à adresser à assoldm@yahoo.fr.
Posted: Uncategorized
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2008
Women in French in Scotland 2009
A one-day conference to be held at the University of Aberdeen
on Saturday 17 October 2009
The annual Women in French in Scotland conference is organised by women academics in French departments at Scottish Universities and has two broad aims:
- to promote scholarly exchange based on research in French Studies by or about women
- to maintain a network of contacts amongst women teaching and researching in French Studies
Abstracts (200 words) are invited for 20-minute papers in English or in French on topics concerning women in any area of French Studies. Offers of papers on teaching issues and non-literary topics (translation, politics, history, media) are very welcome. Please send abstracts (and queries) to the organiser Elizabeth MacKnight (e.macknight@abdn.ac.uk).
Posted: WIFIS 2009
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2008
The seventh annual meeting of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS) took place on 18 October 2008 at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow’s splendid nineteenth-century municipal library. The conference, organised by Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier (Strathclyde), and Elisabeth Campbell (University of the West of Scotland) welcomed a group of six historians from the Association Les Femmes et la Ville, Marseille, as part of the Glasgow/Marseilles Twin Towns Programme, as well as participants from Bordeaux, Montpellier, Haute-Alsace, Berlin, Avignon, Bielefeld, and throughout the UK. Conference papers presented in the five sessions took up a broad spectrum of work by and about women, including Louise Labé, Taos Amrouche, Catherine Breillat, eighteenth-century pedagogical novels by women, and the letters of Euphrasie Rodrigues, a young pianist active as a Saint-Simonian. Highlights of the Mitchell’s extensive archives and special collections were toured with Marion Beaton, department co-ordinator. The WIFIS plenary was given by the distinguished feminist historian Françoise Thébaud, professor of modern history at the University of Avignon and co-editor of CLIO, on ‘L’aventure intellectuelle de l’histoire des femmes et du genre en France’. The organisers are grateful to the University of Strathclyde and the University of the West of Scotland for financial support. The October 2009 meeting will take place at the University of Aberdeen, organised by Elizabeth MacKnight, e.macknight@abdn.ac.uk. For more information, please visit the WIFIS blog at http://wifis.edublogs.org. (Report by Elisabeth Campbell, Joy Charnley, and Caroline Verdier).
Posted: WIFIS 2008
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2008
The WIFIS 2008 conference was a great success and we would like to thank everyone for their enthusiastic participation and contributions.
Thanks again to everyone
Caroline, Elisabeth & Joy
Posted: WIFIS 2008
