Jeanine Delpech (born Jeanine Louise Nelly Delpech; 1 August 1905 – 3 July 1992) was a French journalist and translator from English, as well as an author of romance novels, detective novels, sentimental novels, and historical works. Her works appeared under various names including Jean de Lutry, Robert Beauchamp, Jeanine Goldet, Jeanine Antoine-Goldet, Louise Nelly Delpech-Teissier and Madame Robert Teissier. Delpech died in 1992.
Early life and education
Jeanine Louise Nelly Delpech was born in 1905 at the Château du Prieuré in Évecquemont, to Edmond Jean Frédéric Marie Delpech, a lawyer, and Françoise Marie Reine Suzanne Estier, his wife.[1]
In 1935, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the Faculty of Paris.[2]
Career
She began her literary career by publishing numerous historical works, including several on criminal cases or famous criminals. She also provided a few romance novels to various publishers, including Groupe Flammarion, sometimes using the pseudonym, "Jean de Lutry". She collaborated for many years with the literary and artistic journal, Les Nouvelles littéraires, as well as with other cultural publications. Under the pseudonym of "Robert Beauchamp", she published half a dozen detective novels in the 1960s by the Presses de la Cité and, in the 1970s, in the Le Masque collection. As a translator, she was the author of the French language texts of the novel, Eh bien, ma jolie, by James Hadley Chase, Les Lévriers du seraglio by Mary Stewart, and the biographical account of Ernest Hemingway entitled, Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique. In addition to using various masculine pen names, including "Jean de Lutry" and "Robert Beauchamp" After her marriage to Antoine Goldet, she signed some of her texts "Jeanine Goldet"[3] or "Jeanine Antoine-Goldet".[4] Having married Robert Tessier,[5] she signed her works, "Louise Nelly Delpech-Teissie" or "Madame Robert Teissier".[6][7][8][9]
Personal life
In 1925, she became engaged to Antoine Goldet, then a student at the École Normale Supérieure. Their daughter, Nicole, was born the following year,[10] and their son, François, in 1929.[11] After a divorce, Jeanine remarried in 1937 with Robert Tessier.[12]
Jeanine Delpech's interview with Albert Camus, first published in Les Nouvelles litteraires, 15 November, 1945, included in Camus' Lyrical and Critical Essays.
