could not read it in public. Her library was rather tiny, and only consisted of some magazines, a few historical books, and 'la légende des siècles' by Victor Hugo. She did not imitate anybody's style in her verses, but presented herself truly and naïvely. Her piety was sincere and without affectation. She looked after poor or ill people devotedly, and called on a sick woman just four days before dying; even her parents ignored this self-sacrificing. She died as she lived, silently. Major works Atlantide, May 1880 Belladonna, in Trois Nouvelles : Verena, Belladonna, Cendrillon, par M. S. Framel, Alice de Chambrier et F. Guillemet, Lausanne, Arthur Imer, 1882 Au-delà,1883 Le Chatelard de Bevaix dans le Musée neuchâtelois, 1884. Œuvres poétiques, Neuchâtel, éditions de la Baconnière, 1972 Sibylle ou le Chatelard de Bevaix, Genève, 1983 Légendes et récits, Liminaire, Genève, 1990 Poèmes choisis, Lausanne, éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 1998 Oh ! Laissez-moi chanter..., 2004 Bibliography Henry Barbier, Alice de Chambrier et son œuvre littéraire, éd. Cahors, 1937, 24 p. (In-8°) Service pour la promotion de l'égalité entre homme et femme, Pionnières et créatrices en Suisse romande, XIXe et XXe siècles, Genève, Slatkine, 2004 External links Notice d'un choix de poèmes Alice de Chambrier at WikiSource Swiss women poets Poètes maudits 1861 births 1882 deaths Deaths from diabetes 19th-century Swiss poets 19th-century Swiss women writers 19th-century Swiss writers Swiss poets in French People from Neuchâtel