Annie Vivanti

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Annie Vivanti Chartres, 1910
Annie Vivanti with her daughter Vivien, 1901

Annie Vivanti (born 7. April 1866 as Anna Emilia in London ; died 20th February 1942 in Turin ) was an Italian writer . Her writing pseudonym was George Marion .

life and work

Vivanti was born in London as the daughter of the silk merchant Anselmo Vivanti and the German Salonnière , writer and translator Anna Vivanti-Lindau , sister of the famous writers Paul and Rudolph Lindau , where her father found political asylum in Mantua after the uprisings of 1851 . She grew up in Italy , England , Switzerland and the USA , where her father was President of the Società Reduci delle Patrie Battaglie and the Italian Chamber of Commerce of New York . In 1880 she published the collection of poems Lirica, which was published in Italy with a foreword by the later Nobel Prize winner Giosuè Carducci and was immediately a great success there. In 1891 she published her first novel, Marion Artista di Caffè Concerto. After her marriage to the Irishman John Chartres in 1892, she lived in England and the USA for almost twenty years, during which time she wrote only in English. Like her husband, she supported Irish independence, wrote articles for various newspapers and assisted the Irish delegation at Versailles in 1919 . In the same year she definitely returned to Italy. After the war she supported Benito Mussolini and wrote for nationalist Italian newspapers such as Il Popolo d'Italia and L'Idea Nazionale. In 1941 she was placed under house arrest by the fascists in Arezzo because of her connections to England. Her books were banned in Italy for a while because of her Jewish ancestry. Mussolini's direct intercession enabled her to return to Turin. Her health deteriorated after her daughter Vivien, a gifted violist, committed suicide in Brighton in the autumn of 1941 . She died shortly after converting to Catholicism . She is buried in the Monumental Cemetery in Turin and her simple tombstone bears the first lines of the most famous poem Carducci dedicated to her. Because of its internationalism and incoherent literary education, it does not belong to a single literary genre or to any particular cultural movement. Her ongoing association with Carducci has reinforced her personal style, distancing her from the themes and styles typical of the women's writings of her time.

Works (selection)

English novels

  • 1896: The Hunt for Happiness
  • 1904: Winning Him Back

English plays

  • 1898: That Man
  • 1900: The Ruby Ring

English short stories

  • 1910: The Devourers
  • 1912: Circe
  • 1915: Marie Tarnowska

Italian works

  • 1916: L'Invasore
  • 1917: Uae victis!
  • 1918: Le bocche inutili
  • 1918: Zingaresca, short stories
  • 1920: Well tripudians
  • 1922: Fosca, sorella di Messalina

German translations

  • 1940: Mea Culpa, Stuttgart

literature

  • B. Allason, "Ricordi di Annie Vivanti" in Nuova Antologia, April 1952, pp. 369-381
  • "Annie Vivanti" in Biography Index. A Cumulative Index to Biographical Material in Books and Magazines. Volume 20: September, 1994-August, 1995. New York: HW Wilson Co., 1995.
  • "Annie Vivanti" in: Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, First edition, New York, Columbia University Press, 1947
  • "Annie Vivanti" in Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. Second edition. Edited by Jean-Albert Bede and William B. Edgerton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
  • "Annie Vivanti" in: Dizionario generale degli autori italiani contemporanei, II, Firenze, Vallecchi 1974.
  • "Annie Vivanti" in: Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, Vol. 698, New York: Garland Publishing, 1991
  • "Annie Vivanti" in: The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992
  • "Annie Vivanti" in Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Based on entries that first appeared in Literary Yearbook (1906–1913), Literary Yearbook and Author's Who's Who (1914–1917), Literary Yearbook (1920–1922), and Who's Who in Literature (1924–1934)
  • "Annie Vivanti" in: Women in World History, A Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 17, Yorkin Publications, 1999
  • "Annie Vivanti Chartres" in Enciclopedia Judaica, Volume 16, Jerusalem 1971
  • C. Catanzaro, "Annie Vivanti" in La donna italiana nelle scienze, nelle lettere, nelle arti, Firenze, Biblioteca editrice della rivista italiana, 1899, pp. 206-207.

Web links

Commons : Annie Vivanti  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaetana Marrone, Anne Urbancic: Annie Vivante. In: Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Band: AJ. Taylor & Francis, 2007, p. 1242
  2. ^ Valeria Palumbo: Annie (Anna Emilia) Vivanti. In: enciclopediadelledonne.it. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Vivanti, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vivanti, Anita; Vivanti Chartres, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1942
Place of death Turin