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Cécile Gilson
A Belgian writer of the early 20th century, she is remembered for fiction shaped by the emotional aftershocks of World War I. Her best-known work, Celles qui sont restées, turns its attention to the women who remained at home while the war went on.
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by Cécile Gilson
About the author
Born in 1880 and deceased in 1923, Cécile Gilson was a Belgian writer whose surviving reputation rests largely on a small body of French-language fiction.
Her most noted book is Celles qui sont restées, published in 1919 with a preface by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud. The work was presented as a tribute to Belgian women who stayed behind during the First World War, and that focus helps explain the quiet intensity often associated with her writing.
Another work linked to her is Le miroir, published in 1923. Read today, her books offer a glimpse of Belgian literary life in the years surrounding the war, with an emphasis on private feeling, endurance, and everyday lives under strain.