Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women: From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

by Winn,Colette H.

• ISBN13: 9780815331902
• ISBN10: 0815331908
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame, to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.

Table of Contents

Dedication	ix
Contributors	xiii
Introduction	xix
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Marie de France	1	(16)
Norris J. Lacy
Gormonda de Monpeslier	17	(18)
Wendy Pfeffer
Marguerite de Navarre	35	(28)
Melanie E. Gregg
Helisenne de Crenne	63	(44)
Lisa Neal
Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange	107	(16)
Jane Couchman
Georgette de Montenay	123	(14)
Regine Reynolds-Cornell
Marie de Romieu	137	(14)
Marian Rothstein
Catherine des Roches	151	(20)
Anne R. Larsen
Gabrielle de Coignard	171	(42)
Colette H. Winn
Robert H. McDowell
Anne de Marquets	213	(12)
Gary Ferguson
Catherine Hampton
Madame de Mornay (Charlotte Arbaleste de la Borde)	225	(12)
Patricia Francis Cholakian
Marie de Gournay	237	(6)
Elyane Dezon-Jones
Madeleine de Scudery	243	(14)
Mary Anne Garnett
Madame de Saint-Balmon (Alberte-Barbe d'Ernecourt)	257	(32)
Carmeta Abbott
Francoise Pascal	289	(16)
Deborah Steinberger
Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon	305	(22)
Marcelle Maistre Welch
Madame de Sevigne (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal)	327	(34)
Catherine R. Montfort
Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins)	361	(16)
Donna Kuizenga
Francis Assaf
Catherine Durand	377	(26)
Perry Gethner
Anne-Marguerite Du Noyer	403	(6)
Henriette H. Goldwyn
Anne-Therese de Lambert	409	(16)
Catherine Danielou
Madame de Gomez (Madeleine-Angelique Poisson)	425	(24)
Hannah Fournier
Marie-Anne Fiquet Du Boccage	449	(28)
Valerie C. Lastinger
Francoise de Graffigny	477	(10)
Carol L. Sherman
Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni	487	(22)
Felicia B. Sturzer
Ruth P. Thomas
Louise d'Epinay	509	(24)
Mary S. Trouille
Isabelle de Charriere	533	(10)
Carol L. Sherman
Charlotte Elisabeth Aisse	543	(16)
Valerie Lastinger
Olympe de Gouges	559	(14)
Samia I. Spencer
Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun	573	(8)
Carol L. Sherman
Index	581