Like a Carp on a Lawn
Graham Robb: Marie D’Agoult, 7 June 2001
The Life of Marie d'Agoult, Alias Daniel Stern
by Phyllis Stock-Morton.
Johns Hopkins, 291 pp., £33, July 2000,0 8018 6313 9 Show More
by Phyllis Stock-Morton.
Johns Hopkins, 291 pp., £33, July 2000,
Marie d’Agoult: The Rebel Countess
by Richard Bolster.
Yale, 288 pp., £16.95, September 2000,0 300 08246 0 Show More
by Richard Bolster.
Yale, 288 pp., £16.95, September 2000,
“... three children, the second of whom, Cosima, succeeded ‘where her mother had failed’, says Phyllis Stock-Morton, by ‘becoming the permanent muse of a great composer’ (Wagner). Marie d’Agoult is also known as ‘Daniel Stern’, the name under which she published a vivid and well-documented Histoire de la Révolution de 1848 (1850-53). Until ... ”
