Marie Tourte-Cherbuliez

Marie Tourte-Cherbuliez (12 April 1793, Geneva - 19 August 1863, Plainpalais) was a Swiss writer of children's and young adult literature, translator and literary critic .

Marie Tourte-Cherbuliez admired Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and became involved in children's literature . She began by writing reviews of Jeremias Gotthelf 's works in the Bulletins littéraires. Then in 1850, she translated the historical novel The Son of Tell ( Der Knabe des Tell, 1846) by Jeremias Gotthel. She also translated works by British writers Jane Marcet and Anthony Trollope. She also wrote reviews of works by William Thackeray .

Her own books were on education, family and religious virtues, such as Annette Gervais. Scènes de famille, which she published in 1835, and Pastor Raumer's Daughter, from 1848 . Her stories usually have a young girl as the main character. Her works have been translated into German and English . She is one of the few prose authors of this period in French-speaking Switzerland, and belongs to the last generation of Swiss writers of literature of a sentimental and educational nature .

Works

• Journal d'Amélie, ou dix-huit mois de la vie d’une jeune fille. Scènes de famille, 2 volumes, 1834.
• Annette Gervais. Scènes de famille, 1835.
  • Annette Gervais, from the French. Hamilton Adams, and Co. 1843.
• Contes et récits pour la jeunesse, 1re série, 1836.
• Deux excursions dans la vallée de Grindelwald, en 1793 et 1839, 1840.
• La fille du pasteur Raumer. Scènes familières, 1848.
• L’enfant patriote, 1851.

Sources

• Francillon, Roger (2015-04-16). Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande (in French). Carouge-Genève: Zoe. ISBN 978-2-88182-943-7.
• Zellweger, R. (1941). Les débuts du roman rustique: Suisse, Allemagne, France, 1836-1856. Thèses (in French). Droz.