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Re: Female Society members

From: Ian Thompson <ithompson~at~geog.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:23:46 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Garmt,
You could add General Beauregard in Les Forceurs de blocus.
Also The Rev. Mr S and Mr B in Voyage à Reculons...though of course they are
made anonymous and it is not one of the Voyages Extraordinaires.
In making Mrs Barnett a Fellow of the Royal Society Verne reflects a more
egalitarian approach to membership of Learned Societies in France as
compared with Britain. For example, the Société de Géographie de Paris, of
which Verne was a member, had female members from an early stage and by the
1840s had included a woman in an expedition (to Senegal) . It would not
therefore have appeared unusual to Verne that his fictional woman in Le Pays
des foururres should have been received into an eminent British scientific
Society, but this was in fact decades in advance of the reality.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Female Society members


> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ian Thompson wrote:
>
> > Trivial details perhaps, but it is interesting to see that Verne prefers
> > to use fictional names when this is part of the story, but often
> > introduces real names in specific contexts (eg explorers, inventors
> > etc).
>
> There are indeed very few occasions where real characters enter the plot
> (as opposed to simply being referred to). Let's see what examples we can
> think of:
>
> - Nana Sahib in Maison a Vapeur
> - Manuel Assomption in Superbe Orenoque (who is also mentioned in
> Chaffanjon's book, a major source for Orenoque)
> - Paul V... in Ville flottante
> - The Czar in Strogoff (but note how his name is never mentioned, nor the
> exact year in which the story takes place)
> - Governor Glass of Tristan d'Acunha in Sphinx des glaces
> - perhaps some of the conspirators in Famille-Sans-Nom?
>
> .... that's all that springs to mind!
>
> Garmt.
>
>
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