Eugénie de Guérin

Eugénie de Guérin (French pronunciation: [øʒeni də ɡeʁɛ̃]; 29 January 1805 – 31 May 1848) was a French writer and the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin.

In her case mysticism assumed a form more strictly religious, and she continued to mourn her brother's loss of his early Catholic faith.

Five years older than he, she cherished a love for him which was blended with a somewhat motherly anxiety.

After his death she began the collection and publication of the scattered fragments of his writings.

); G Merlet, Causeries sur les femmes et les hIres (Paris, 1865); Selden, L'Esprit des femmes de notre temps (Paris, 1864); Marelle, Eugénie et Maurice de Guérin (Berlin, 1869); Harriet Parr, M. and E. de Guérin, a monograph (London, 1870); and Matthew Arnold's essays on Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin, in his Essays in Criticism.