- Eugénie de Guérin
Eugénie de Guérin (1805–
May 31 ,1848 ), Frenchwriter , was the sister of thepoet Maurice de Guérin .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
mysticism 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, "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); Harriet Parr, "M. and E. de Guérin", a monograph (London, 1870); and
Matthew Arnold 's essays on Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin, in his "Essays in Criticism".References
*1911
uggested reading
* Guérin, Eugénie de. "Journal of Eugénie de Guérin." 1865. Ed. G.S. Trébutien. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1417953349
* 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. ISBN 0773485309
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