Mademoiselle O

"Mademoiselle O" is a memoir by Vladimir Nabokov about his eccentric Swiss-French governess.

It was first written and published in French in Mesures (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936)^[1] and subsequently in English (translated by Nabokov and Hilda Ward) in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1943).^[2]

It was first anthologized in Nine Stories (1947)^[3] and was later reproduced in Nabokov's Dozen (1958)^[4] and The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.

It became a chapter of Conclusive Evidence (1951, also titled Speak, Memory) and subsequently of Drugie Berega (1954, translated into Russian by the author) and Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1966).^[5]

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