Marguerite Audoux

Marguerite Audoux (* July 7, 1863 in Sancoins, Cher, † November 11, 1937 in Hyères) was a French novelist.

Life

Marguerite Donquichote ( the last name of their mother took them until 1895 to ) grew up as the child of a laborer family in the marshes of the Loire. After her mother and the disappearance of her father's death, the three year old comes with her sister in the orphanage of Bourges. From the age of 12, she hires herself as a shepherdess.

1881 begins as apprentice in a Parisian tailor shop and takes more poorly paid jobs as an unskilled worker. Their first child died after birth, the mother is infertile.

A severe eye disease complicates her sewing, and encouraged by the friend of her niece, which she recorded with her, she starts to work on the autobiographical novel, Marie -Claire, which in 1910 will be a big success, and reports of misery and hopelessness smaller workers. The follow-on Atelier Marie Claire does not appear until 1920.

She saw itself as a dressmaker and defended public honors and awards from. She assisted with the revenue through their earlier works and colleagues also took the three orphaned sons of their Not to live with him.

Works

• Marie -Claire (1910). Marie -Claire, German speak. Olga Wohlbrück, Berlin, Bong, 1910, with e Vorw of Octave Mirbeau.
• L' Atelier de Marie -Claire (1920). Atelier Marie Claire, Transfr v. Maria Arnold, Zurich, Rascher, 1938; The design studio of Marie -Claire, Berlin, building -Taschenbuch -Verlag, 1992.
• De la ville au moulin ( 1926).
• Douce Lumière (1937 ).