清末民初女性小说家吕韵清生平及小说作品考述

On Life And Novels of Lv Yunqing in the Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic of China

吕韵清是20世纪初女性小说家群中的代表作家之一,她与南社著名女诗人徐自华有总角之交,她的生年是略晚还是略早于徐自华,她的小说作品数量是七八篇还是十几篇,学术界历来说法不一。本文以文献资料为依据,通过解读比对史料,推断吕韵清的生年应晚于徐自华,在1874年至1875年左右;她在1914年至1924年间,相继在《申报》《女子世界》《七襄》《春声》《浙江道路杂志》等报刊上发表了16部短篇小说,并出版了《石姻缘》和《返生香》2部单行本的长篇小说,小说作品总数为18部。吕韵清是一位有社会影响力的高产的小说家,她的小说创作在近代文学发展历程中具有重要的文学史意义。

Lv Yunqing was one of the representative female novelists in the early 20th century. Fromtheir childhood she became a bosom friend of Xu Zihua, who was a famous female poet of SouthernSociety. The questions still remain unanswered in academic circle whither Lv Yunqing is older oryounger than Xu Zihua, and whither Lv wrote seven, eight or more than a dozen novels. Based onanalysis of the historical literature, this paper concludes that Lv was born around 1874-1875, henceyounger than Xu Zihua. From 1914 to 1924 Lv successively published sixteen short stories innewspapers and magazines, including Shen Bao （Shanghai News）, Women＂s World, Qixiang, SpringSounds, and Zhejiang Road Journal, and two novels in single edition： Stone Marriage and RebirthFragrance. Therefore, the total number of Lv^s works is eighteen. Lv Yunqing is a socially influential andprolific novelist. Her novel writing has important literary significance in the development of modernliterature.