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.
Marie Sophie Ristaud (sometimes spelt Risteau) was born in March 1770 atTonneins. She was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker. She wrote severalromantic and historical novels includingElizabeth; 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 publishedClaire d'Albe (1799),Malvina (1801),Amélie de Mansfield (1803),Mathilde (1805), set in thecrusades, 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 at the age of 37 inParis on 25 August 1807.[1]
Silvia Lorusso,Le Charme sans la beauté, vie de Sophie Cottin, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2018. ISBN 978-2-406-08007-7
Silvia Lorusso,Comment s’affranchir de la passion. Le pouvoir de la religion dans les derniers romans de Sophie Cottin, in F. Bercegol et M. Gardini (dir.),Littérature et religion, in « Cahiers de littérature française », n. 21, 2022, p. 29-40. ISSN 1971-4882 ; ISBN 9-782406-144526
Silvia Lorusso,Sophie Cottin et la religion, in « Orages », n. 20, 2022, p. 171-181. ISSN 1635-5202
Silvia Lorusso,Madame Cottin face à Madame de Staël, in F. Bercegol et C. Klettke (dir.),Les femmes en mouvement – L’univers sentimental et intellectuel des romancières du début du XIXe siècle, Berlin, Frank & Timme, 2017, p. 73-87. ISBN 978-3-7329-0322-1
Silvia Lorusso,Sophie Cottin et « le triste honneur de former une nouvelle école de romanciers », in F. Bercegol, S. Genand et F. Lotterie (dir.),Une « période sans nom ». Les années 1780-1820 et la fabrique de l’histoire littéraire, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2016, p. 205-222. ISBN 978-2-406-05998-1
Silvia Lorusso,Lettre inédite de Madame Cottin sur la loi du divorce, in « Revue italienne d’études françaises », [Online], n. 1, 2011. ISSN 2240-7456
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cottin, Marie".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.