La Maupin Links

I’ve been researching and writing about (mostly on the web) La Maupin for more than three decades. Some of what I wrote was lost, but a lot is still around. Additionally, a number of people that I’ve corresponded or collaborated with have a significant web presence. This page is meant to collect some of that.

• My Stuff—I first started writing about La Maupin on the web in 1994, creating a number of pages and then a full writing, research and blogging web-app, which died in a server catastrophe a few years later.
  • My original online life of La Maupin on eldacur.com.
  • I was an early contributor the La Maupin Wikipedia page, but when other editors started citing my web pages as a source, I backed off to avoid conflicts of interest. I have since been declared to not be a reliable source and am no longer cited. Still, many of my contributions linger.
• Other author’s works
  • Camille Rogers is a Canadian scholar, singer and the creator behind the latest film about La Maupin.
    • La Maupin, a Musical Film is premiering March 14 at OperaQ in Toronto. I’ll definitely be there.
    • Their research website is a wonderful resource regarding La Maupin, with strong emphases on her music and her gender role.
    • Their doctoral thesis “Playing Queer and Performing Gender at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: The Unconventional Life, Voice, and Body of Julie D’Aubigny Maupin” provides a multi-faceted view of La Maupin, her life, her gender identity, her art and Camille’s own reflections on her legacy.
    • Camille’s YouTube channel is also both informative and entertaining. They have a wonderful series of Lady Whistledown pastiche shorts wherein “Lady Whistletone” takes various swipes at Maupin, as well as more authoritative longer form videos.
  • Kelly Gardiner is an Australian writer and teacher. She joined and contributed to my original (now lost) LaMaupin.com website, and managed to get her La Maupin novelization out a decade before me.
    • Kelly's novel “Goddess” is available on Amazon, and elsewhere.
    • Kelly's website has a whole section devoted to Goddess and La Maupin, including a FAQ, a timeline, research log and her retelling of Julie's life/ She also has a couple of pertinent academic publications
      • Of particular interest on her website: The real life of Julie d’Aubigny
      • A paper at academia.com: Of female bridegrooms and cavaliers: a bibliography on Julie d'Aubigny and her world
      • An earlier paper, The queer I: Ethics of authenticity and the historical voice, is available om her website.
  • Anne-France Dautheville is a French journalist and writer, noted for being the first woman to motorcycle solo around the world. In 1995 she novelized La Maupin's life in French. She responded via email to my original La Maupin pages and has been charming and generous.
    • Her novel “Julie, chevalier de Maupin” (French)