ABSTRACT

The friendship between Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) and Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) can be traced across four decades, from the literary salons of Victorian London to the reconfiguring world of the 1920s. Grounded in their shared belief in the social and political purpose of History, their intellectual bond was embedded in similar progressive political and literary communities and networks bridging England, Ireland, France and America. Nevertheless, their gender, nationality, political affiliations and diplomatic imperatives set them on diverging trajectories. Jusserand’s path to becoming France’s ambassador in Washington (1903–1924) took a formal route through the Quai d’Orsay. In contrast, Stopford Green advanced through informal diplomatic channels, seeking to use her history-writing for the purposes of protodiplomacy on behalf of an Irish nation-state in waiting. By tracing the contours of this scholarly and diplomatic connection, a picture emerges of the role of History in the making of history.

摘要

Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) 和 Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) 之间的友谊可以追溯到四个十年，从维多利亚时代伦敦的文学沙龙到 1920 年代重新配置的世界。基于他们对历史的社会和政治目的的共同信念，他们的知识纽带植根于类似的进步政治和文学社区以及连接英格兰、爱尔兰、法国和美国的网络。然而，他们的性别、国籍、政治派别和外交要求使他们走上了不同的轨道。Jusserand 成为法国驻华盛顿大使（1903-1924 年）的途径是通过奥赛码头的正式路线。相比之下，Stopford Green 通过非正式的外交渠道取得进展，寻求将她的历史写作用于代表等待中的爱尔兰民族国家的原始外交目的。通过追踪这种学术和外交联系的轮廓，历史在历史创造中的作用就出现了。