La Maupin Links

I’ve been researching and writing (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 coresponded 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
  • Kelly Gardiner is an Australian writer and teacher. She joined and contributed to my (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 Mauoin, including a FAQ, a timeline, research log and her reteling 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)