Th. Bentzon

Born Marie-Thérèse Blanc in Seine-Port, France, in 1840, she became widely known by the pseudonym Thérèse Bentzon or Th. Bentzon. She worked for many years with the Revue des Deux Mondes and earned a reputation as a novelist, essayist, journalist, and translator.

She was especially interested in American writing and society. After traveling in the United States, she wrote about American literature, social conditions, and the lives of women, helping French readers discover authors and debates from across the Atlantic.

Bentzon remained a prolific literary figure until her death in 1907. Her work sits at an interesting meeting point of fiction, criticism, travel writing, and cultural observation, which still makes her a distinctive voice of the nineteenth century.