Sophie Ristaud Cottin

Sophie Ristaud Cottin

Sophie Cottin (22 March 1770 - 25 August 1807) was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages.

Biography

Born Marie Sophie Ristaud (sometimes spelt Risteau) in March 1770 at Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, she was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker. She wrote several romantic and historical novels including Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia (Elisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie 1806), a "wildly romantic but irreproachably moral tale", according to Nuttall's Encyclopaedia. She also published Claire d'Albe (1799), Malvina (1801), Amélie de Mansfield (1803), Mathilde (1805), set in the crusades and a prose-poem, La Prise de Jéricho. Her writing became more important to her after her first husband died when she was in her early twenties. She went to live with a cousin and her three children at Champlan (Seine-et-Oise) but died in her thirties, in Paris on 25 August 1807.^[1]

Notes

1. Chisholm 1911.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cottin, Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
•  Wood, James, ed. (1907). "C". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

External links

• Works by Madame Cottin at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Sophie Ristaud Cottin at Internet Archive
• Introduction to Amélie Mansfield
• Cottin's life and works (in French)