"We Met in Paris" Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar / by Joan E Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Joan E., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.

Women--France--Paris--Biography.

Women.

Women translators--Missouri--Biography.

Women translators.

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Frick, Grace.

Yourcenar, Marguerite--Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri, [2018]

Summary:

"The distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is known to English-language readers all over the world thanks to the compelling translations of a native Missourian, Grace Marian Frick. Frick, raised by a prominent Kansas City family, was a doctoral student in English literature at Yale University in 1937 when she met Yourcenar by chance in Paris. From the first, she saw Yourcenar's genius. A woman of incredible energy and determination, Frick devoted the rest of her life to fostering it, becoming not only Yourcenar's American translator, but was also her creative collaborator and life partner"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Frequently Cited Works by Marguerite Yourcenar

Preface

Prologue

Chapter 1: The Early Years

Chapter 2: Wellesley College

Chapter 3: Pursuing the Academic Life

Chapter 4: Time Out

Chapter 5: Incipit Vita Nova

Chapter 6: Passage to America

Chapter 7: Separation

Chapter 8: Interlude

Chapter 9: Dean Frick

Chapter 10: Echoes of the War

Chapter 11: Extracurricular Activities

Chapter 12: Locking Horns

Chapter 13: Best-Laid Plans

Chapter 14: A Gift from Jacques Kayaloff

Chapter 15: The Life Their Wishes Never Led

Chapter 16: The Saga of Emily Hall

Chapter 17: Brooks Cottage

Chapter 18: Paris, France

Chapter 19: In Collaboration with the Author

Chapter 20: On the Road Again

Chapter 21: Continuing the Journey

Chapter 22: Home Sweet Home

Chapter 23: Coup de Grâce

Chapter 24: To a Far Country

Chapter 25: Travels and Travails Foreign and Domestic

Chapter 26: The Wages of Success

Chapter 27: Three Crossings

Chapter 28: Battling over L'OEuvre au Noir

Chapter 29: Dear Departed

Chapter 30: Grace Bashing Begins

Chapter 31: Round Two

Chapter 32: Offerings to Neptune and Hermes

Chapter 33: One More Midnight Sun

Chapter 34: Surcease

Chapter 35: Coda

Epilogue: In Memoriam

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826274045

0826274048