TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herold,J.Christopher
TI  - Mistress to an age: : a life of Madame de Staël
U1  - 848.609 
PY  - 1959///
CY  - London
PB  - Hamish Hamilton
KW  - Staël,
KW  - Authors, French
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - France
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-474) and index; Part I. The Neckers; The Obscure years of Monsieur Necker; The romance of Suzanne Curchod; Madame Necker's drawing room; The Trinity and the triangle; Part II. Love and politics; Marriage and emancipation; Revolution and intoxication; Love and politics; The heartbreak and the terror; Benjamin; 'This miserable gypsy life'; Part III. Two tyrants; Ideology; The ideophobe defied; Weimar, Berlin and fate; The Isle of Calypso; Corinne and Adolphe; Farce, tragedy, and histrionics; The sword beats the spirit; Part IV. The Vanity of human wishes; Caliban; Defeat in victory; Not the port but the grave
ER  -