Isabelle de charriere biography of william

Dutch-born author of plays, stories, novels and essays, which were largely romantic reflections on her liaisons. Name variations: Isabelle de Charrière; Zelide or Zélide; Abbe de la Tour.

Born Isabelle Agnès Elisabeth van Tuyll van Seeroskerken van Zuylen in 1740 at Zuylen, Netherlands; died in 1805; daughter of the Lord of Zuylen; educated at home; married Charles-Emmanuel de Charriere (a mathematician), on February 17, 1771, in Zuylen; no children.

Selected works:

Lettres de Mistress Henley (The Letters of Mistress Henley, 1784); Lettres neuchâteloises (Letters from Neuchâtel, 1784); Lettres trouvées dans des portfeuilles d'emigrés (Letters from an Émigré's Wallet, 1793); Trois Femmes (Three Women, 1797).

Aristocratic life, at her family's castle at Zuylen and mansion in Utrecht, held little interest for Isabelle van Tuyll, the first of seven children.

Her young mother had little time for her, and her strict father kept her in so