WRITER

Isabelle de Charrière

1740 - 1805

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Isabelle de Charrière (French pronunciation: [izabɛl də ʃaʁjɛʁ]; 20 October 1740 – 27 December 1805), known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and [Madame] Isabelle de Charrière (married name) elsewhere, was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel. She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isabelle de Charrière has received more than 85,586 page views. Her biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Isabelle de Charrière is the 661st most popular writer (up from 800th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 110th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Writer.

Isabelle de Charrière is most famous for her 1782 novel, "Letters of a Peruvian Woman," which was one of the first novels written in French by a woman.

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Notable Works

Four tales
Switzerland
1925
Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie
Biography & Autobiography
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publi�es par son amie was composed as a response to Samuel de Constant's misogynist novel, The Sentimental Husband (1783). Charri�re presents six letters penned by a Mistriss Henley, who has chosen a decent and affectionate man as her life's companion only to discover that she cannot bear sharing his life. An immediate success on its publication in 1784, Mistriss Henley was greeted with acclaim and controversy: one reader called the book "literarily excellent" but "morally dangerous in various ways." Remarkable for its empathy for both spouses, Mistriss Henley is not only a moving work of fiction but also one of the most modern novels of its day.
1993
Rebels en beminnelijk
1971
Lettres de Belle de Zuylen (Madame de Charriere) à Constant d'Hermenches, 1760-1775
1909
Oeuvres complètes [de] Isabelle de Charrière, Belle de Zuylen
1979
Correspondance (1787-1805)
1996
Lettres écrites de Lausanne
1788
Caliste, ou, Lettres écrites de Lausanne
1845
Caliste, Ou Lettres Écrites de Lausanne
2018
Trois Femmes
2020
Trois femmes
Fiction, historical, Europe, fiction
1942
Oeuvres complètes [de] Isabelle de Charrière, Belle de Zuylen
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 661 out of 7,302. Before her are Pietro Metastasio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Camilo José Cela, Washington Irving, Frontinus, and Ian McEwan. After her are Aratus, Giambattista Basile, Ivan Goncharov, Irwin Shaw, Eduardo Galeano, and Sugawara no Michizane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 5. Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, and Empress Go-Sakuramachi. After her are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1805, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 4. Before her are Friedrich Schiller, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and Luigi Boccherini. After her are Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, and Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 95 out of 1,646. Before her are Gerard Kuiper (1905), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Sophia of Hanover (1630), William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), and Menno Simons (1496). After her are Geert Wilders (1963), Gerard ter Borch (1617), Gabriël Metsu (1629), Carel Fabritius (1622), Joris Ivens (1898), and Norbert of Xanten (1080).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 2. Before her are Thomas Bernhard (1931). After her are Multatuli (1820), Harry Mulisch (1927), Robert van Gulik (1910), Etty Hillesum (1914), Cees Nooteboom (1933), Dick Bruna (1927), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Isaac Titsingh (1745), Jacob Cats (1577), and Aagje Deken (1741).

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