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1740 (20 October) Isabelle de Tuyll (Zélide) born at Castle Zuylen, Utrecht, Netherlands

1760 Isabelle begins secret correspondence with the Chevalier d’Hermenches

1762 Isabelle (as Zélide) publishes her first story ‘Le Noble’

1763 Isabelle meets James Boswell

1764 Isabelle writes her ‘Portrait of Zélide’

1771 (February) Isabelle marries Monsieur de Charrière They move to Le Pontet, Colombier, Switzerland

1776 Isabelle’s father dies, and her correspondence with the Chevalier d’Hermenches ends

1784 Isabelle publishes the Letters of Mistress Henley

1785 The Chevalier d’Hermenches dies

1787 Isabelle meets Benjamin Constant in Paris

1788 Isabelle publishes Caliste

1795 Isabelle publishes Three Women

1805 (27 December) Isabelle dies at Le Pontet, Colombier

1816 Benjamin Constant publishes Adolphe

1830 Benjamin Constant dies

1884 (11 June) Geoffrey Scott born in Hampstead, London

1906 Scott meets his mentor Mary Berenson in Florence Philippe Godet publishes Madame de Charrière et Ses Amis

1913 Scott falls in love with Nicky Mariano in Florence

1918 Scott marries Lady Sybil Cutting in Florence

1919 Scott discovers the works of Isabelle de Charrière (Zélide) in Lausanne University Library

1920 Scott writes to Mary Berenson and Nicky Mariano that he intends to write Zélide’s biography

1923 Scott falls in love with Vita Sackville-West, who encourages him to finish the biography

1925 Scott publishes The Portrait of Zélide

1927 Scott leaves for America, to work on the Boswell archive

1929 (14 August) Scott dies in the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, New York