Biographies

Andrews, Wayne. Germaine: A Portrait of Madame de Staël. New York: Atheneum, 1963, 237 p.

Conveys a modern view of the life of de Staël.

Besser, Gretchen Rous. Germaine de Staël Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994, 180 p.

Offers an analysis of the life, works, and contributions of de Staël in light of new data and a changing feminist perspective.

Blennerhassett, Lady Charlotte. Madame de Staël: Her Friends and Her Influence in Politics and Literature, 3 vols., translated by J. E. Cumming. London: Chapman and Hall, 1889.

Provides a definitive biography of de Staël.

Criticism

Birkett, Jennifer. "Speech in Action: Language, Society, and Subject in Germaine de Staël's Corinne." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 7, no. 4 (July 1995): 393-408.

Discusses the dynamics of subjective and collective narrative voice within the feminist text of Corinne.

Borowitz, Helen O. "The Unconfessed Précieuse: Madame de Staël's Debt to Mademoiselle...