Henry Gréville

Alice Marie Céleste Durand (née Fleury; 12 October 1842 in Paris – 26 May 1902) was a French writer best known under her pen name Henry Gréville.

"Henry Gréville" (c.1870)

The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom she returned to France in 1872.

Gréville had already published novels in St. Petersburg journals: A travers des champs and Sonia, and continued her production in France, first with the novels Dosia (1876) and L'Expiation de Savéli (1876), depicting Russian society. Her first full novel Dosia was awarded the Montyon Prize and saw many editions.[1] Her books were translated in many European languages.

Works
  • A travers des champs
  • Sonia
  • La Fille de Dosia (1876)
  • L'Expiation de Savéli (1876)
  • La Princesse Oghérof (1876)
  • Les Koumiassine (1877)
  • Suzanne Normis (1877)
  • La Maison de Maurèze (1877)
  • Les Épreuves de Raïssa (1877)
  • L'Amie (1878)
  • Un violon russe (1879)
  • Lucie Rodey (1879)
  • Le Moulin Frappier (1880)
  • La cité Ménard (1880)
  • L'Héritage de Xénie (1880); Published in German as Erbschaft Xenias in Engelhorn's allgemeine Roman-Bibliothek series (1888)
  • Madame de Dreux (1881)
  • Rose Rozier (1872)
  • Un crime (1884)
  • Clairefontaine. Paris: Plon-Nourrit. 1885. OCLC 902262395.[2]
  • Idylle.... (1885)
  • Cléopâtre (1886)
  • Zitka or the Trials of Raissa no date stamp on the paperback from Royal Publishing Company.
  • Aurette (1891)

References
  1. Cámpora, Magdalena (2022-04-08). "La Nación, el Segundo Imperio y la Tercera República. Pedagogía cultural y novela francesa en la Argentina (1901-1920)". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez. Nouvelle série (in Spanish) (52–1). doi:10.4000/mcv.16649. ISSN 0076-230X.
  2. Hanin, Laetitia (2017), Devenir du modèle « champêtre » chez deux romancières de la fin du XIXe siècle: Thérèse Bentzon et Henry Gréville (in French), Classiques Garnier, pp. 14 pages, pages 159–172, doi:10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06310-0.p.0159, ISBN 978-2-406-06310-0, retrieved 2022-12-30


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