‎Baillie Martha Noyart Paule‎
‎Si Clara‎

‎Clara Raphael. Tolv Breve, udgivne af Johan Ludvig Heiberg + (Gerson:) Fem Breve til Clara Raphael fra en Ung Hustru + ""Et Besøg."" Nye Breve af Forfatterinden til Clara Raphael. - [THE BREAK-THROUGH OF FEMINISM IN DENMARK]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1851. All three works bound together in a contemporary green half cloth binding with a large printed paper label to spine (reading ""Clara Raphael). Inner hinges a bit weak. Wear to upper capital and remains of varnish to spine. First quire of Clara Raphael with a damp stain and the first two works brownspotted. Old owner's signature to front free end-paper. ‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first feminist novel in Denmark, the highly controversial and influential ""Clara Raphael"", which is the work that sparked the battle for women's rights in Denmark. Bound together with one of the most important responses to it from the same year as well as Fibiger's ""A Visit"", also from 1851, which is Fibiger's defence against the many accusations against her following the publication of ""Clara Raphael"", directed at her women readers. Fibiger’s novel caused enormous controversy. The intellectual elite was in uproar. Within the first year of its publication, ca 25 responses to it were published in newspapers and periodicals and ca 10 brochures and pamphlets pertaining to it. The novel caused vexation in all political camps. The demands for equality between the sexes were scrutinized in all regards, and many politicians began singing the praises of “the woman of the home”. It is in this strain of thought that the famous author of children’s books, Julius Christian Gerson, wrote his significant contribution to the feud, “Five Letters to Clara Raphael from a Young Wife”, also published in 1851. Using the pseudonym “A Young Wife”, he claims, in the voice of this fictitious woman, that Fibiger’s novel had violated the female gender and that the emotions and the striving that are presented as those most pertinent for the woman, are completely foreign to the true woman. He lets his fictitious female author praise herself for being “a young mother who wishes for nothing and wishes to be nothing outside of her circle.” The debate that arose following the publication of ""Clara Raphael"" was very harsh indeed, and the whole public debate was hard on Mathilde Fibiger. Her views were lost on almost all notable men of the period, but she clearly needed to defend herself. Thus, in the same year, she wrote another novel, also in the form of letters, “A Visit”, in an attempt to extrapolate on her views and defend herself. This novel, however, is not written in order to persuade the men of her views, but was directed at women, who would hopefully get to understand her views better. ""Clara Raphael"" is the main work of feminism in Denmark and the first Danish governess novel. It founded an entirely new genre of women's novels hitherto unknown in Denmark. The work, which constitutes the break-through of feminism in Denmark, was greatly controversial and immediately caused great furore. It resulted in the so-called Clara Raphael Dispute, in which for instance N.F.S. Grundtvig defended Mathilde Fibiger. Due to the controversial contents of the work, Mathilde Fibiger published it anonymously, and only J.L. Heiberg (1791-1860, perhaps the most famous cultural persona during the Danish Golden Age. He played a more significant role than any other author or thinker during this period) is mentioned on the title-page, as the editor. No publisher had wanted to touch this highly controversial work, and it was only after the appearance of ""Jane Eyre"" that a publishing house dared take it on. As Mary Wollstonecraft had pioneered feminist philosophy with ""A Vindication of the Rights of Women"" from 1792 and argued for education as the means to liberate women, so Mathilde Fibiger surprised her Danish contemporaries with her groundbreaking novel ""Clara Raphael. Twelve Letters"", from 1851, in which she made the connection between the national-democratic movement and the liberation of women. With this book, which deals with the inequality of the sexes and the lack of possibility for women to develop themselves, Mathilde Fibiger became the first notable advocate of the emancipation of women in Denmark. It was not only the political controversy caused by the request of equality that made the book so extremely controversial, it was also the ability of the merely 20 year old author to clearly and precisely state and substantiate the essential problems. When reading the book, it is not difficult to see why it came to have the effect that it did, and why it caused the furor that it did. For instance, Clara Raphael, when despairing at the position of women in society, writes: ""Our position in society is tragic, and why? What right does man have to suppress us? For subjugated we are, despite the chains being gilded."" She understands that casting off these chains will be no easy matter, and that it will not only be a matter of politics, but also of consciousness and mindset: ""When the peasants were granted their freedom, some of them wept, begging for permission to keep things as they had been."" One of the beaming sentences of the novel is Clara's response to her friend when asked what she is actually fighting for: ""I will fight and live for what I understand by the emancipation of women.""Her hope of breaking with the existing patriarchal system of society required national and democratic self-awareness, which for her constituted a promise of freedom. In 1871, Frederik Bajer (1837-1922) and Matilde Bajer (1840-1934) founded the Danish Women's Society, the first women's organisation in Denmark. Mathilde Fibiger was one of the earliest members of the Society. When the Danish Women's Society was established, it did not demand female suffrage. It was not until 1906 that a majority of the members were in favour of making that demand the official policy of the Society. In Denmark, women were not allowed to vote in parochial church council elections until 10+3" not until 1908 were they allowed to vote in parish council and local council elections, and not until 1915 in the Folketing and the Landsting elections. It was not until then that women became fully-fledged citizens in a political sense.‎

‎Le théâtre de Clara Gazul‎

‎Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922. 625 g In-8 broché, 312 pp., [3] ff.. Illustré dun frontispice et de figures gravées sur bois par Jean-Louis Gampert. Ouvrage tiré à 344 exemplaires, celui-ci numéroté sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Légers défauts. . (Catégories : Livres illustrés, Littérature, )‎

‎Clara Raphael. Tolv Breve, udgivne af Johan Ludvig Heiberg. - [FOUNDING FEMINISM IN DENMARK]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1851. Bound in a lovely, elegant later (ca 1920) brown half calf with gilt spine and blindtamped borders to boards. Some brownspotting throughout. Numerous pencil-annotations. Fly-leaf with old owner's name. Last leaf repaired at inner hinge, no loss.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first feminist novel in Denmark, the highly controversial and influential ""Clara Raphael"", which is the work that sparked the battle for women's rights in Denmark. The work is is main work of feminism in Denmark and the first Danish governess novel. It founded an entirely new genre of women's novels hitherto unknown in Denmark. The work, which constitutes the break-through of feminism in Denmark, was greatly controversial and immediately caused great furore. It resulted in the so-called Clara Raphael Dispute, in which for instance N.F.S. Grundtvig defended Mathilde Fibiger. Due to the controversial contents of the work, Mathilde Fibiger published it anonymously, and only J.L. Heiberg (1791-1860, perhaps the most famous cultural persona during the Danish Golden Age. He played a more significant role than any other author or thinker during this period) is mentioned on the title-page, as the editor. No publisher had wanted to touch this highly controversial work, and it was only after the appearance of ""Jane Eyre"" that a publishing house dared take it on. As Mary Wollstonecraft had pioneered feminist philosophy with ""A Vindication of the Rights of Women"" from 1792 and argued for education as the means to liberate women, so Mathilde Fibiger surprised her Danish contemporaries with her groundbreaking novel ""Clara Raphael. Twelve Letters"", from 1851, in which she made the connection between the national-democratic movement and the liberation of women. With this book, which deals with the inequality of the sexes and the lack of possibility for women to develop themselves, Mathilde Fibiger became the first notable advocate of the emancipation of women in Denmark. It was not only the political controversy caused by the request of equality that made the book so extremely controversial, it was also the ability of the merely 20 year old author to clearly and precisely state and substantiate the essential problems. When reading the book, it is not difficult to see why it came to have the effect that it did, and why it caused the furor that it did. For instance, Clara Raphael, when despairing at the position of women in society, writes: ""Our position in society is tragic, and why? What right does man have to suppress us? For subjugated we are, despite the chains being gilded."" She understands that casting off these chains will be no easy matter, and that it will not only be a matter of politics, but also of consciousness and mindset: ""When the peasants were granted their freedom, some of them wept, begging for permission to keep things as they had been."" One of the beaming sentences of the novel is Clara's response to her friend when asked what she is actually fighting for: ""I will fight and live for what I understand by the emancipation of women.""Her hope of breaking with the existing patriarchal system of society required national and democratic self-awareness, which for her constituted a promise of freedom. In 1871, Frederik Bajer (1837-1922) and Matilde Bajer (1840-1934) founded the Danish Women's Society, the first women's organisation in Denmark. Mathilde Fibiger was one of the earliest members of the Society. When the Danish Women's Society was established, it did not demand female suffrage. It was not until 1906 that a majority of the members were in favour of making that demand the official policy of the Society. In Denmark, women were not allowed to vote in parochial church council elections until 10+3" not until 1908 were they allowed to vote in parish council and local council elections, and not until 1915 in the Folketing and the Landsting elections. It was not until then that women became fully-fledged citizens in a political sense.‎

‎Le secret de Clara‎

‎Belfond 2001 360 pages 15 4cm x 24cm x 2 8cm. 2001. broché. 360 pages. Passionnante saga d'une famille de grands bourgeois parisiens malmenée par les soubresauts de l'Histoire et déchirée par les rivalités et la soif de vengeance Le Secret de Clara est aussi l'inoubliable portrait d'une femme hors du commun. Une nuit de juillet 1945 un coup de feu arrache Clara Morvan du sommeil. Pour elle la mort d'Edouard son fils aîné est plus un choc qu'une surprise. Mais de ses soupçons personne ne saura rien. Parce qu'il est des secrets qu'il vaut mieux enfouir avec les morts pour préserver les vivants. Ses petits-enfants bien sûr mais aussi Charles son second fils dévasté par la disparition à Ravensbrück de Judith son épouse adorée et de leur petite fille de six ans. La devise de Clara c'est "La famille avant tout". Tandis que Charles se mure dans une douleur que rien - ni sa brillante carrière d'avocat ni la charge de ses fils neveux et nièce ni même l'amour de la jolie Sylvie - ne peut apaiser Clara en femme de tête et de coeur réorganise la vie du clan. Entre l'hôtel particulier parisien et la propriété familiale en Provence les cinq cousins grandissent unis comme les doigts de la main. Et quand de nouveaux scandales viendront secouer la jeune génération Clara prête à tout pour sauver le bonheur des siens rejettera sans hésiter le carcan des conventions. Cependant loin de soupçonner dans quelle insoutenable vérité s'enracine son lourd secret elle ne pourra prévenir le drame qu'elle redoutait tant‎

‎French édition - légères traces de lecture et/ou de stockage sinon en très bon état général. Expédié soigneusement depuis la France‎

‎Clara d'Ellébeuse ou l'Histoire d'une ancienne jeune fille. [Illustrations de Robert Bonfils]. Pomme d'Anis. Illustrations de Henri Georget.‎

‎Paris, Mercure de France, 1912-1914 2 volumes grand in-8 carré de 90pp., (1)f. d'achevé d'imprimer - 80pp., (1)f. de prospectus, 1 f.bl., demi-maroquin à coins, vert d'eau pour Clara d'Ellébeuse et vert foncé pour Pomme d'Anis, les deux ouvrages présentant sur les dos un même décor floral, décliné en maroquin mosaïqué noir pour le premier et poussé à froid sur le second, couvertures illustrées et dos muets conservés (René Kieffer).‎

‎"Premières éditions illustrées de ces deux ouvrages ressortissant des fameux ""portraits de jeunes filles"" de Francis Jammes. Chacun des ouvrages a été tiré à 350 exemplaires tous numérotés. Un des 300 sur Vélin de cuve, venant après 50 Japon, pour Clara d'Ellébeuse; celui-ci n°235. Un des 300 sur Arches, venant après 50 Japon, pour Pomme d'Anis; celui-ci n°59. L'illustration de Clara d'Ellébeuse consiste en 52 composition in-texte coloriées au pochoir, plus des lettrines, de Robert Bonfils. C'est Clara d'Ellébeuse qui impose Robert Bonfils, pionnier du style Art-déco, en tant qu'illustrateur. La technique du pochoir lui permet de traduire ici, dans un esprit encore pointilliste, une atmosphère de rêverie lumineuse. Pomme d'Anis présente de nombreuses compositions dans le texte de Henri Georget, en couleurs -dont 10 à pleine page en comptant le frontispice- et des lettrines ornées. René Kieffer (1876-1963) -passé à la postérité comme relieur, libraire et éditeur d'art!- tomba amoureux de ces délicats portraits, et leur conféra le statut de classiques. On lui doit, en effet, la conception et la réalisation, sur le même modèle, de ces livres publiés par le Mercure de France -la célèbre maison s'en étant remis à son savoir-faire et à sa créativité pour diriger leur édition. Bel exemplaire, parfaitement établis par René Kieffer, ravi, sans doute, de pouvoir les relier simultanément, selon un même modèle décliné avec des variantes. Dos passé pour Clara d'Ellébeuse. Quelques rousseurs en début et fin de volume pourPomme d'Anis. Les magnifiques couvertures imprimées sont, pour l'un comme l'autre des volumes, à l'état de neuf. Talvart et Place, Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française, X, 10.B. et 16.B. - Carteret, Lives illustrés modernes, IV, p. 215 et V, p. 110."‎