d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine - Melvin D. Palmer (essay date summer 1975)
Melvin D. Palmer (essay date summer 1975)
SOURCE: Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d'Aulnoy in England.” Comparative Literature XXVII, no. 3 (summer 1975): 237-53.
[In this essay, Palmer details the reception of d'Aulnoy's writings in England, focusing on her travel narratives and memoirs.]
In the fourteen years from 1690 to 1703, Marie-Cathérine Jumelle de Barneville, Mme d'Aulnoy, wrote ten works that were translated into English by 1721 and came to occupy an important place in the history of French-English prose fiction in the formative years that saw the rise of the modern novel.1 These include three pseudo-autobiographical accounts of travel translated as The Lady's Travels into Spain, The Memoirs of the Court of Spain, and The Memoirs of the Court of England; three sentimental, historical romances and a collection of sentimental tales translated as The History of the Earl of Warwick, Hypolitus...
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