Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi was a French poet and woman of letters.
Occupation
writer, poet, salonnière, autobiographer
Citizenship
France
Born
July 13, 1882
Died
December 3, 1934
Overview
Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi (13 July 1882 – 3 December 1934) was a French poet and woman of letters.
Early life
Catherine Pozzi was born in an aristocratic and bourgeois environment at the end of the 19th century, to Thérèse Loth-Cazalis and Samuel Pozzi, surgeon and gynecologist. Her well-educated family was friends with artists and writers, including José-Maria de Heredia and Paul Bourget. From a young age she was interested in music, and at age 11 started keeping a journal. She studied for a year in Oxford.
At the age of 19, she read the published diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, and it had a profound effect upon her, spurring her to write intensely in her own journal.
She began studying history, philosophy, religion, math, and sciences as the student of Marie Jaëll. In 1918, at the age of 37, she passed her baccalaureate. In that year, her father was murdered by one of his former patients who was suffering from a paranoid delusion.
