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The daughter of a cotton industrialist in Manchester, Marie Nordlinger met Marcel Proust in Paris through her cousin the Venezuelan composer Reynaldo Hahn. It was there that a friendship with the French novelist began and soon blossomed thanks to the help she gave him to translate two of John Ruskin’s works into French. This talented, multilingual artist and sculptor, the “Parisienne from Manchester”,<\/strong> went on to lead a remarkable life in the art world. She sculpted in Hamburg and in Belle Époque Paris; she negotiated contracts in America for the Paris-based art dealer and disseminator of Japonisme Siegfried Bing; she helped catalogue in Detroit the precious art collections of the industrialist Charles Lang Freer; back in Paris, she opened her own antique shop. With great stoicism, Marie overcame personal tragedies: her marriage to the German art historian Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl ended in divorce; during the Great War her belongings were confiscated; and in the Second World War her beloved son was killed in a flying accident. After the publication of her correspondence from Proust, Lettres à une amie<\/em>,<\/strong> in 1942, she became a celebrity, her Manchester home the center of pilgrimage for Proustians from all over the world. Her later years she spent promoting the memory of Proust and that of her cousin Reynaldo, with whom she had been in love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through her cousin the composer Reynaldo Hahn, Marie Nordlinger, a Manchester-trained artist, met Marcel Proust with whom she forged a deep friendship. After a career in the art world, she later devoted her life to cultivating Proust’s memory and that of Hahn, with whom she had been in love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prologue
\n1 Family and childhood
\n2 Formative years
\n3 The Parisienne of Manchester
\n4 A taste of Paris
\n5 An apprentice in Hamburg
\n6 Rome and Tuscany
\n7 Venice . . . at last!
\n8 The mysterious fiancé
\n9 Rebonjour Paris
\n10 Siegfried Bing
\n11 Silversmith and wordsmith
\n12 On the cusp of a big adventure
\n13 Transatlantic travelling saleswoman
\n14 Marie-Ulysses
\n15 Rudolf Meyer-Riefstahl
\n16 Cupid’s dart
\n17 Spending the Bing bequest
\n18 Saved by Proust
\nEpilogue
\nAcknowledgements
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21583],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75126","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"author-by-author-cynthia-gamble","8":"publisher-john-adamson","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMarie Nordlinger (1876\u20131961) - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/marie-nordlinger-1876-1961\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marie Nordlinger (1876\u20131961) - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Through her cousin the composer Reynaldo Hahn, Marie Nordlinger, a Manchester-trained artist, met Marcel Proust with whom she forged a deep friendship. 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