Marie Souvestre
Marie Souvestre (born April 28, 1835 in Brest , Bretagne , † March 30, 1905 in Allenswood , England ) was a French feminist , human rights activist and boarding school director.
biography
Marie was the daughter of the famous novelist and stage poet Émile Souvestre and his wife Angélique-Anne Papot. Together with her partner Caroline Dussault, she founded a girls' boarding school Les Ruches in Fontainebleau near Paris in 1865 . Their students mostly came from wealthy middle-class and artist families. After Dussault's death in 1887, Souvestre left France to open an exclusive boarding school for girls in Allenswood near London .
The director, Marie Souvestre, an educated and liberal woman, was unusually committed to the field of girls' education for the time and had a great influence on her students. Among her numerous students were Natalie Clifford Barney , Laura Clifford Barney , Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Emmy Schwarzenbach.
literature
- Marie-Françoise Bastit-Lesourd: Marie Souvestre (1835–1905) féministe et pédagogu. In: Les Cahiers de l'Iroise. No. 202, May / Août 2005, ISSN 0007-9898 , pp. 3-16.
- Betty Boyd Caroli: The Roosevelt Women. A portrait in five generations. Basic Books, New York NY 1998, ISBN 0-465-07133-3 , pp. 248-252
- Blanche Meadows Cook: Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 1: 1884-1933. Viking Penguin, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-670-80486-X , pp. 103-116
- Suzanne Rodriguez: Wild Heart. A life. Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris. Ecco, New York NY 2002, ISBN 0-06-093780-7 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Souvestre, Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French feminist, human rights activist and school principal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brest , Brittany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1905 |
| Place of death | Allenswood , England |