This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2013) Click [show] for important translation instructions. * View a machine-translated version of the French article. * Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. * Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,175 articles in the main category, and specifying`|topic=` will aid in categorization. * Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. * You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is `Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Judith Gautier]]; see its history for attribution.` * You should also add the template `{{Translated|fr|Judith Gautier}}` to the talk page. * For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. | Judith Gautier Born| 25 August 1845 Paris, France Died| 26 December 1917(1917-12-26) (aged 72) France Occupation| Poet, novelist Nationality| French Genre| Poetry, historical literature Spouse| Catulle Mendès Partner| Richard Wagner (1876) Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.[1] Judith Gautier, John Singer Sargent, 1885 She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner during the late summer of 1876. She collaborated with Pierre Loti, the famous novelist, in writing a play, La fille du ciel (1912; English, The Daughter of Heaven), translated and produced under their personal supervision at the Century Theatre, New York City.[2] She was an Oriental scholar and her works dealt mainly with Chinese and Japanese themes.[1] Her translations were among the earliest to bring Chinese and Japanese poetry to the attention of modern European poets. She was a member of the Académie Goncourt (1910–17). ## Contents * 1 Works * 2 Further reading * 3 References * 4 External links ## Works[edit] Mémoires d'un éléphant blanc * Le livre de jade (Paris, 1867) (extended edition Paris, 1902) * Le Dragon Impérial (1869) * L'Usurpateur (1875) * Isoline et La Fleur-Serpent (1882) (translated by Brian Stableford as Isoline and the Serpent-Flower (2013), ISBN 978-1-61227-152-1) * La Reine de Bangalore (1887) * Les Princesses d'Amours (Paris, 1900) * Le Collier des Jours (Paris, 1902) * Le Paravent: De Soie et D'Or (Paris, 1904) * L’Avare Chinois, an adaptation of a Yuan zaju Khan thsian-nou by Zheng Tingyu (Paris, 1908)[3]:130 * Mémoires d'un Éléphant Blanc (The Memoirs of a White Elephant), illustrations by Alphonse Mucha (children's book)[4] ## Further reading[edit] * Knapp, Bettina L. (2004). Judith Gautier: Writer, Orientalist, Musicologist, Feminist. Hamilton Books. * Richardson, Joanna (1987). Judith Gautier: A Biography. New York: F. Watts. ## References[edit] 1. ^ a b Daniel Coit Gilman, ed. (1902). "Gautier, Judith". New International Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. p. 161. Retrieved November 18, 2018. 2. ^ "Loti-Gautier Play at Century Theatre", The New York Times, October 13, 1912. 3. ^ Tian, Min (2018-11-27). The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre: The Displaced Mirror. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-97178-0. 4. ^ Gallica.bnf.fr ## External links[edit] * Works by Judith Gautier at Project Gutenberg * Works by or about Judith Gautier at Internet Archive * Works by Judith Gautier at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Authority control General| * ISNI * 1 * VIAF * 1 * WorldCat National libraries| * Norway * Spain * France (data) * Germany * Italy * Israel * United States * Japan * Czech Republic * Australia * Netherlands * Poland * Vatican Biographical dictionaries| * Germany Other| * Faceted Application of Subject Terminology * MusicBrainz artist * RERO (Switzerland) * 1 * Social Networks and Archival Context * SUDOC (France) * 1 * Trove (Australia) * 1