Marguerite Poradowska

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Marguerite Poradowska in 1905

Marguerite Poradowska , born Marguerite-Blanche-Marie Gachet de la Fournière (born March 12, 1848 in Ixelles , † 1937 in the Château de Montgoublin, Nièvre department ) was a Belgian writer .

Life

Her parents were the medievalist Emile Gachet (1809–57) and Françoise-Marie Jouvenel (1825–1904), daughter of the medalist Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel (1798–1867). Marguerite grew up in Ixelles near Brussels. She had a younger brother, Charles-Louis. After her father's untimely death, her mother worked as a teacher to support the family.

After a five-year engagement, Marguerite Gachet married the Polish officer Aleksander Poradowski (1836–1890), a cousin of the writer Joseph Conrad, on September 7, 1874 . Shortly after the wedding, she and her husband moved to his family in the Ukraine, where they lived for ten years. When his health deteriorated, they returned to Belgium. In 1890 her husband died after a long illness in her house in Ixelles. Marguerite Poradowska first moved to Lille , then to Paris. In 1937 she died in the Château de Montgoublin, her nephew's estate.

Poradowska wrote French fiction , including Demoiselle Micia: moeurs galiciennes (1889), Le Mariage du fils Grandsire (1894), Pour Noémi (1900), Mariage romanesque (1903) and Hors du foyer . Her work comprises a total of eight novels as well as short stories and short stories.

Poradowska exchanged views with Joseph Conrad about her work and had an influence on his writing. She met him on February 5, 1890, two days before the death of her husband, whom he was visiting. Soon after, they began an extensive correspondence that began at a time when Conrad was developing from navigator to writer and which lasted until his death.

Works

In German published by Marguerite Poradowska:

  • A romantic marriage. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1906.
  • The voice of the blood. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1903.
  • Misha. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1892.

literature

  • René Rapin (ed.): Lettres de Joseph Conrad Marguerite Poradowska. Édition critique, précédée d'une étude sur le français de Joseph Conrad. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, No. 17. Geneva, 1966. 230 pages. OCLC 558802043
  • Conrad and Marguerite Poradowska. In: Susan Jones: Conrad and Women. Oxford / New York: Clarendon Press , 1999. ISBN 9780198184485 doi : 10.1093 / acprof: oso / 9780198184485.003.0004
  • Anne Arnold: Marguerite Poradowska as Conrad's Friend and Adviser. In: The Conradian: the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). 34.1, 2009, pp. 68-83.

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personal data
SURNAME Poradowska, Marguerite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poradowska – Gachet, Marguerite; Gachet de la Fournière, Marguerite-Blanche-Marie (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Ixelles
DATE OF DEATH 1937
Place of death Château de Montgoublin, Nièvre department