Henriette Guizot de Witt

Henriette Guizot de Witt (1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris), the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot[1] and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse (1876), Scènes historiques (five series, 1875-85), Les chroniques de l'histoire de France jusqu'au XIVe siècle (4 volumes 1882-85). She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.

One of her daughters was the pronatalist and feminist activist Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Henriette and Pauline Guizot"
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