Marguerite Audoux

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Marguerite Audoux (1911)

Marguerite Audoux (born July 7, 1863 in Sancoins , Cher , † November 11, 1937 in Hyères ) was a French novelist.

Life

Marguerite Donquichote (she only took her mother's surname in 1895) grew up in a family of day laborers in the marshland on the Loire. After the death of her mother and the disappearance of her father, the three-year-old and her sister are taken to the Bourges orphanage . From the age of 12, she works as a shepherdess.

In 1881 she started working as an apprentice in a Paris tailor's workshop and took on other poorly paid jobs as an unskilled worker. Their first child dies after birth and the mother becomes sterile.

A severe eye disease makes sewing difficult for her, and encouraged by the acquaintance of her niece, who has taken her in, she begins work on the autobiographical novel Marie-Claire , which was a great success in 1910 and tells of the misery and hopelessness of small workers . The follow-up work The Atelier of Marie-Claire did not appear until 1920.

She continued to see herself as a seamstress and fended off public honors and awards. She supported former colleagues with the income from her works and also took in the three orphaned sons of her not.

Works

  • Marie-Claire (1910). Marie-Claire , German transl. by Olga Wohlbrück, Berlin, Bong, 1910, with e. Foreword by Octave Mirbeau .
  • L'Atelier de Marie-Claire (1920). Marie-Claire's studio , transferred from Maria Arnold, Zurich, Rascher, 1938; Marie-Claire's studio , Berlin, Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1992.
  • De la ville au moulin (1926).
  • Douce Lumière (1937).

literature

  • Bernard Garreau, Marguerite Audoux, la couturière des lettres , Tallandier, 1991.
  • Bernard Garreau, La Famille de Marguerite Audoux , Septentrion, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 100
  2. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history , Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Audoux, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French novelist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Sancoins , Cher
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1937
Place of death Hyeres