Yourcenar translated Woolf’s novel, The Waves into French. The couple lived for decades in a house they bought in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine.Ī visit to London in 1937 introduced Yourcenar to Virginia Woolf.
Inclined towards bisexuality, Yourcenar became romantically involved with Frick and they remained a pair till Frick’s death in 1979. She adopted the name, Yourcenar as her penname and by 1947 it had become her legal name.Įscaping the outbreak of World War II, Yourcenar moved to the United States with her companion Grace Frick who also translated her major novels. Her extensive travelling, particularly a visit to Italy became inspiration for her next novel, A Coin in Nine Hands (1934), a novel based on the difference between reality and dreams. Her first novel, Alexis told the story of a dedicated artist who faced opposition from his family. The sophisticatedly written poems followed Greek myths seeking relevance to the modern world. Her first books to be published, Le Jardin des Chimères (1921) and Les Dieux ne sont pas morts (1922) were poetry collections. A teenager, Marguerite began writing at an early age.
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