"Mademoiselle O" is a memoir by Vladimir Nabokov about his eccentric Swiss-French governess.
Publication history It was first written and published in French in Mesures (vol. 2, no. 2, 1936) Michael Juliar, Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986; ), item C399, p.505. and subsequently in English (translated by Nabokov and Hilda Ward) in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1943).Juliar, item C461, p. 512.
It was first anthologized in Nine Stories (1947)Juliar, item A25, pp.190–195. and was later reproduced in Nabokov's Dozen (1958)Juliar, item A32, pp.253–7. 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).All editions of the autobiography: Juliar, item A26, pp.196–211.
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