Alexandre Dumas
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Standard Name: Dumas, Alexandre,, père
Used Form: Alexandre Dumas the elder
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Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
Education | Mary McCarthy | Her time at at St Stephens and later at |
Education | Margery Allingham | MA
was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. Thorogood, Julia. Margery Allingham: A Biography. Heinmann, 1991. 25 |
Education | Muriel Box | MB
early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer
) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | After his mother's death Buchanan continued to write, and he and HJ
collaborated on a number of further plays. On 5 January 1899—shortly after their final production (an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's Les Demoiselles... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 23 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 27 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Athenæum continued its speculation on MEB
's gender by opining that this was not an appropriate book to issue from a female pen, and condemning it as an inadequate imitation of Alexandre Dumas
.... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | The Spectator, reviewing Gathered Leaves, called this story one of the most original and entrancing of short stories . . . . . It is a furiously romantic tale, yet purged of all... |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | After 1837 IH
composed a drama based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas the elder
about the Sicilian bandit Pascal Bruno. Though preparations were made for the play's performance, the production foundered, after bitter argument... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | By the following year she was writing: not only a diary, and soon an extensive correspondence, but also poetry (not about adolescent feelings but about places and historical characters); long, romantic, historical novels in the... |
Textual Production | Harriett Jay | By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in... |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart
, translated from the German of Schiller
. Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Even after her father's death lifted the pressing need for earnings, MRM
edited a collection for young readers of fiction by Dumas
the elder. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In a letter, MEC
explained the novel's genesis four years before publication: [T]he first chapter came into my head, and I scribbled it down, only putting letters for the different men . . .... |
Timeline
Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...
Writing climate item
Between March 1844 and August 1845
The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas
published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Coward, David. “Having Fun”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 17-18.
17-18
Texts
Dumas, Alexandre, père. Le comte de Monte-Cristo. Pétion, 1845, 18 vols.
Dumas, Alexandre, père. Les trois mousquetaires. Baudry, 1844, 8 vols.
Kemble, Fanny et al. Plays. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863.
Dumas, Alexandre, père. The Glacier Land. Translator Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady, Simms and M’Intyre, 1852.