Mademoiselle O Explained

"Mademoiselle O" is a memoir by Vladimir Nabokov about his eccentric Swiss-French governess.

Publication history

It was first written and published in French in Mesures (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936)^[1] and subsequently in English (translated by Nabokov and Hilda Ward) in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1943).^[2]

It was first anthologized in Nine Stories (1947)^[3] and was later reproduced in Nabokov's Dozen (1958)^[4] and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.

It became a chapter of Conclusive Evidence (1951, also titled Speak, Memory) and subsequently of Drugie Berega (1954, translated into Russian by the author) and Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1966).^[5]

Notes

1. Michael Juliar, Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986;), item C399, p.505.
2. Juliar, item C461, p. 512.
3. Juliar, item A25, pp.190 - 195.
4. Juliar, item A32, pp.253 - 7.
5. All editions of the autobiography: Juliar, item A26, pp.196 - 211.