Élisabeth van Rysselberghe explained
Élisabeth van Rysselberghe (15 October 1890 – 29 July 1980) was a Belgian translator. She was the daughter of Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe.
Biography
Élisabeth van Rysselberghe was born on 15 October 1890 in Brussels, Belgium.[1] She was the daughter of neo-impressionist painter Théo van Rysselberghe and his wife Maria Monnom.[2] As a child, she became acquainted with André Gide, a close friend of her parents, and the two became good friends.[3]
Élisabeth had an affair with Rupert Brooke when she was twenty years old, and by 1913 the two might have become lovers "in a complete sense".[4] However, Brooke, who was involved also with other women,[5] died during World War I.
After the war, in 1920, Marc Allégret, Gide's lover, fell in love with Élisabeth. The two had wanted a child, but the wish did not come true. In 1923, Élisabeth gave birth to a child, Catherine. The father was André Gide, who at the time was married, and recognised the child only after the death of his wife, adopting her in 1938.[6] Élisabeth had wanted a child "at all costs",[3] while Gide had passed her a note during a trip on the train with friends years before, where he explained that he could not bear to see her or himself childless.[7] [8] Eventually, Élisabeth married French journalist Pierre Herbart in 1931.[9] After her marriage to Herbart, the friendship between the latter and Gide was upset.[9] The two divorced in 1968.[10]
She was an avid reader and an excellent translator.[11] She translated Donald Windham and John Keats into French.[12] She translated the Letters of John Keats with Charles Du Bos,[13] including Quatre lettres inédites[14] and Lettre à John Hamilton Reynolds.[15] Van Rysselberghe is the French translator of Windham's The Dog Star (French: Canicule)[16] and Emblems of Conduct (French: Emblèmes d'une vie).[17] In 1953, her translation of Justin O'Brien's Les nourritures terrestres d'André Gide et les Bucoliques de Virgile was published.[18]
She died on 29 July 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.[1]
Works
Author
- Lettres à la Petite Dame. Un petit à la campagne (juin 1924 – décembre 1926). Edited by Catherine Gide (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2000).
Translator
- Keats, John. The Letters of John Keats, with Charles Du Bos.
- Keats, John. Quatre lettres inédites in La Revue hebdomadaire, with Charles Du Bos (Paris: Plon, 1921).
- Keats, John. Lettre à John Hamilton Reynolds in Les Écrits nouveaux, with Charles Du Bos (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1921)
- O'Brien, Justin. Les nourritures d'André Gide et les Bucoliques de Virgile (Boulogne-Billancourt: Editions de la Revue Pretexte, 1953).
- Windham, Donald. The Dog Star (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1954).
- Windham, Donald. Emblems of Conduct (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1968).
Notes and References
- Book: Association des amis d'André Gide, Université Paul Valéry. Centre d'études littéraires du XX. siècle. Section Andre Gide, Université de Lyon II. Unité d'études françaises . Bulletin des amis d'André Gide . 1997 . Section André Gide, Centre d'études littéraires du XX. siècle, Université de Montpellier III . 213 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Siepe . Hans T. . Theis . Raimund . André Gide et l'Allemagne . 1992 . Droste . 9783770009947 . 4 January 2022.
- Web site: Devarrieux . Claire . Le grand Gide et la Petite Dame . Libération . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Delany . Paul . Fatal Glamour – The Life of Rupert Brooke . 2015 . McGill-Queen's University Press . 9780773582781 . 122–338 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Caesar . Adrian . Taking it Like a Man - Suffering, Sexuality, and the War Poets : Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Graves . 1993 . Manchester University Press . 9780719038341 . 37 . 5 January 2022.
- Book: Gide . André . Valéry . Paul . Fawcett . Peter . Fawcett . Peter . Correspondance, 1890-1942 . 2009 . Gallimard . 9782070122264 . 929 . 30 December 2021.
- Book: Caws . Mary Ann . Bird Wright . Sarah . Bloomsbury and France - Art and Friends . 1999 . Oxford University Press . 9780198027812 . 336 . 4 January 2022.
- Web site: Galateria . Daria . ANDRE' GIDE Le passioni di un immoralista . La Repubblica . 4 January 2022 . 19 February 2001.
- Book: Schalk. David L.. Roger Martin Du Gard - The Novelist and History . 2019 . Cornell University Press . 152 . 9781501743276 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Moreews . Alain . Pierre Herbart, cinématographes et colonies (1903 - 1974) . 2017 . Editions L'Harmattan . 9782140041723 . 9 . 4 January 2022.
- Web site: Elisabeth Van Rysselberghe au siège en rotin . Christie's . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Kellner . Bruce . Donald Windham - A Bio-bibliography . 1991 . Greenwood Press . 9780313268571 . 14 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Du Bos . Charles . Qu'est-ce que la littérature? . 1989 . L'Age d'homme . 9782825129227 . 74 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: La Revue hebdomadaire - Volume 30, Issues 1-2 . 1921 . Plon, Nourrit & Cie . 89 . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Les Écrits nouveaux - Volume 7, Issues 1-4 . 1921 . Émile-Paul,fréres . 4 January 2022.
- Web site: Canicule . Gallimard . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Emblèmes d'une vie . Gallimard . 4 January 2022.
- Book: Les nourritures terrestres d'André Gide et les Bucoliques de Virgile. . WorldCat . 5174776 . 4 January 2022.
