Judith Gautier

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Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.^[1]

She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner during the late summer of 1876. She collaborated with Pierre Loti, the famous novelist, in writing a play, La fille du ciel (1912; English, The Daughter of Heaven), translated and produced under their personal supervision at the Century Theatre, New York City.^[2] She was an Oriental scholar and her works dealt mainly with Chinese and Japanese themes.^[1] Her translations were among the earliest to bring Chinese and Japanese poetry to the attention of modern European poets. She was a member of the Académie Goncourt (1910–17).

Works

• Le livre de jade (Paris, 1867) (extended edition Paris, 1902)
• Le Dragon Impérial (1869)
• L'Usurpateur (1875)
• Isoline et La Fleur-Serpent (1882) (translated by
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  )
• La Reine de Bangalore (1887)
• Les Princesses d'Amours (Paris, 1900)
• Le Collier des Jours (Paris, 1902)
• Le Paravent: De Soie et D'Or (Paris, 1904)
• L’Avare Chinois, an adaptation of a Yuan zaju Khan thsian-nou by Zheng Tingyu (Paris, 1908)^[3]:130
• Mémoires d'un Éléphant Blanc (The Memoirs of a White Elephant), illustrations by Alphonse Mucha (children's book)^[4]

Further reading

• Knapp, Bettina L. (2004). Judith Gautier: Writer, Orientalist, Musicologist, Feminist. Hamilton.
• Richardson, Joanna (1987). Judith Gautier: A Biography. New York: F. Watts.

References