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"woman of letters" Definitions
  1. a woman who is a scholar
  2. a woman who is an author
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The pre-Napoleonic French language referred to a charpentière (female carpenter) or doctoresse (woman of letters).
A Life in Letters Your interest in "Elizabeth Costello" reminded me of another fictional woman of letters — Aaliya Saleh, the lonely, fiercely literary, 72-year-old Lebanese narrator of "An Unnecessary Woman," by Rabih Alameddine.
Ms. See, a fluid and muscular stylist who emerged observant, imaginative and productive from a discomforting childhood, was a relatively late starter as a writer, though she went on to lead a full career as a woman of letters.
Then, there's the brooding, demanding, but, finally, astonishing woman of letters presented to us by a rising pile of remembrances, notably Sigrid Nunez's " Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag " and "Desperately Seeking Susan," a now iconic 2005 essay by Terry Castle in the London Review of Books .
Claude-Edmonde Magny, real name Edmonde Vinel (1913–1966) was a French woman of letters.
2018\. Clara Dupont-Monod (born 7 October 1973, in Paris) is a French journalist and woman of letters.
Lucie Faure, née Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director.
Anne de Tourville (26 August 1910, Bais, Ille-et-Vilaine – September 2004, Bais) was a 20th-century French woman of letters.
Diane de Margerie Diane Jacquin de Margerie (born 24 December 1927) is a French woman of letters and translator from English.
Claire-Marie Mazarelli, marquise de la Vieuville de Saint-Chamond (born 1731 in Paris) was an 18th-century French woman of letters.
Marguerite de Lubert or Marie-Madeleine de Lubert (17 December 1702, Paris – 20 August 1785, Argentan) was a French woman of letters.
Elena Balletti, Elena Riccoboni or Flaminia (April 27, 1686 – December 29, 1771) was an Italian actress, poet, woman of letters, playwright and writer.
Pauline Ménard-Dorian (21 July 1870 – 24 December 1941) was a French woman of letters and a literary salon hostess of La Belle Époque.
Raymonde Vincent (1908, Luant Indre – 1985, Saint-Chartier (Indre)) was a French woman of letters. She won the Prix Femina in 1937 for her novel '.
The President of the National Writers Council, Mr. Dimas Lidio Pitty delivered during the ceremony: Elsie Alvarado is the most complete woman of letters in our cultural history.
Simonne Ratel (22 July 1900 – 20 November 1948) was a 20th-century French woman of letters. She was the winner of the 1932 edition of the prix Interallié.
Capucine Motte (born 1971) is a Belgian born French woman of letters. A former lawyer (New York and Paris) and galierist, she won the 2013 edition of the Roger Nimier Prize.
Jakuta Alikavazovic (born October 6, 1979 in Paris) is a French woman of letters. Her novel Corps volatils, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in 2007, was awarded the prix Goncourt du premier roman.
Madame Simone, in 1911. Simone Le Bargy, (April 3, 1877 – October 17, 1985), born Pauline Benda but better known by her stage and pen name, Madame Simone, was a French actress and woman of letters.
Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.
Maria Luisa Cicci (14 September 1760 - 8 March 1794) was an Italian woman of letters and 18th century poet, a member of the Arcadian colony of Pisa, one of the Intronati of Siena, and a salon holder.
University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1991. (pg. 345) in 1872 when his father accepted a position at St John's in Christchurch.Hughes, Linda K. Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. (pg.
Maria Le Hardouin (née, Sabine d'Outhoorn; 1912, Geneva – 24 May 1967, Paris) was a Swiss French-speaking writer and woman of letters. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 1949 for her novel La Dame de cœur.
Pauline Dreyfus (19 November 1969) is a French woman of letters, winner of the prix des Deux Magots in January 2013 for her novel '. That was the first time the prize was awarded unanimously by the jury.
Louise Bellocq, real name Marie-Louise Boudât, (20 January 1919, Charleville- Mézières – c. 1968) was a 20th-century French woman of letters born in a family of Béarn origin. She was awarded the Prix Fémina in 1960.
Armande Gobry-Valle (born 1953) is a French woman of letters. She was a teacher in Troyes. She wrote for more than twenty years without seeking a publisher. In 1990, the published Terre tranquille, a collection of short stories.
Marcelle Marguerite Suzanne Tinayre (October 8, 1870 in Tulle, Corrèze - August 23, 1948 in Grossouvre, Cher) was a French woman of letters and prolific author. She was educated at Bordeaux and Paris, and in 1889 married the painter Julien Tinayre.
Her sisters, Nan and Nina cared for her until she died on the morning of January 14, 1932.Ibid., 306-307. She is buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. King finished her autobiography, Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters shortly before her death.
Portrait of Countess Clara Maffei by Francesco Hayez Elena Clara Antonia Carrara Spinelli (13 March 1814, in Bergamo – 13 July 1886, in Milan) was an Italian woman of letters and backer of the Risorgimento, usually known by her married name of countess Clara Maffei or Chiarina Maffei.
Gollin, Rita K. Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002: 43. He made portraits of children, which exhibited at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. in January, 1902. A book was published that year entitled Ideal Children's Heads in Crayon and Oil.
Unlike her peers Princess Nazli Fazil and Huda Sha'arawi, Mayy Ziyadah was more a 'woman of letters' than a social reformer. However, she was also involved in the women's emancipation movement.Zeidan, 1995, p. 75 Ziadeh was deeply concerned with the emancipation of the Arab woman; a task to be effected first by tackling ignorance, and then anachronistic traditions.
Her later publications pursued visual-textual studies, focusing on the iconography of Hawthorne portraiture, and a biography of Hawthorne's publisher's wife, "Annie Adams Fields, Woman of Letters." Gollin has also edited scholarly editions of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Her awards and services include NEH grants, and Presidencies of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and of the Northeast MLA.
Through Newnham's principal Pernel Strachey she met Edith Sitwell and Virginia Woolf, who would later call her first novel Virginia Water (1929) "a sweet white grape of a book". Positive reviews for the novel led to a deal with Victor Gollancz Ltd to publish three more books.Grimes, William. "Elizabeth Jenkins, Woman of Letters, Dies at 104", The New York Times, 8 September 2010.
The book has been compared to Chateaubriand's René or Mme de Stael's Corinne. As a young man, Constant became acquainted with a literary friend of his uncle, David-Louis Constant de Rebecque. She was Isabelle de Charrière, a Dutch woman of letters with whom he jointly wrote an epistolary novel, under the title, Les Lettres d'Arsillé fils, Sophie Durfé et autres.Wood, Dennis.
1533-1549 . In 1931, he added the Recueil général des bas-reliefs statues et bustes de la Germanie romane to the volumes devoted to Gaul. In 1936, he married Jeanne de Flandreysy, a woman of letters, and spent his last years in Avignon at the palais du Roure. He published the eleventh volume of his general collection in 1938, one year before his death.
In order to support herself and her family, Christine turned to writing. By 1393, she was writing love ballads, which caught the attention of wealthy patrons within the court. Christine became a prolific writer. Her involvement in the production of her books and her skillful use of patronage in turbulent political times has earned her the title of the first professional woman of letters in Europe.
Levidis was born in Tatavla, Constantinople to the Levidis family, a noble Greek family of Byzantine origins.Νέα Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια, ΧΑΡΗ ΠΑΤΣΗ His father was Nikolaos A. Levidis, a man of letters, editor of many books and a prominent figure among the Greeks influenced by the Age of Enlightenment. His mother was also a woman of letters, highly educated and talented in music and languages. Levidis studied greatly throughout his youth.
There was such a thing as a man of letters, not a woman of letters. Hence, she was both a woman and man. Nor was she shy about that, identifying herself on her cards as, "Rachilde, homme de lettres," a man of letters. Her views on gender were strongly influenced by her distrust of her mother and her envy of the privileged freedom she saw in men like her philandering father.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and was also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best remembered for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.
Carlyle's House, in Chelsea, central London, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. She was a prominent woman of letters, for nearly half a century. The building dates from 1708 and is at No. 24 Cheyne Row (No. 5 when they lived there); the house is now owned by the National Trust.
Margarita Balliana (fl. 1680) was a Renaissance woman of letters from Casale Monferrato in north-west Italy. She received a good education in philosophy and history and is described by Gioseffantonio Morano as ‘illustrious for the fineness of her talents’. She published various poems in Latin and in Italian and was praised by Stefano Guazzo, the most prominent writer of Renaissance Casale, and by Fulgenzio Alghisi, the historian of Monferrato.
Lady Antonia "Toni" Bevell, portrayed by Elizabeth Blackmore, is a Woman of Letters from British Men of Letters. In "Season 11, Alpha and Omega", Toni returns to her home in London only to get a call that something bad is happening. She heads to her basement where she observes a bulletin board decorated with information on the Winchester family. She bids her sleeping son goodbye and prepares to head out.
Nita Rousseau (1944 – 28 July 2003, Paris) was a French journalist and woman of letters. The daughter of an officer of the troupes coloniales, Nita Rousseau grew up in Indochina and Africa. She was a documentalist at Le Nouvel Observateur, before becoming a cultural journalist and a literary and theatrical critic from 1971. Her first novel, Les Iris bleus, received the prix Goncourt du premier roman in 1992.
Luba Jurgenson, (born 1 July 1958) is a French-speaking woman of letters. She is also a translator, a maître de conférences and codirector (with Anne Coldefy-Faucard) of the series "Poustiaki" at .17 pages are devoted to her in the book Écrivains franco-russes by Murielle Lucie Clément, editions Faux titre, 2008. Her novel Au lieu du péril (2014) earned her the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2015.
Celine Axelos (née Tasso; 1902–1992) was an Egyptian poet, public speaker, and woman of letters. Her older brother, René Tasso (1897–1920), was also a poet of distinction who, however, died at the young age of twenty-two from tuberculosis.Four of René Tasso's poems can be found in J. Moscatelli, Poètes en Egypte, 1955, pp. 80–83. Her father was a middle class functionary of Lebanese extraction.
Attia Hosain (1913–1998) was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor.Distant Traveller, new and selected fiction: edited by Aamer Hossein with Shama Habibullah, with foreword and afterword by them, and introduction by Ritu Menon (Women Unlimited, India 2013). This contains the first publication of a section of Attia Hosain's unfinished novel, No New Lands, No New Seas.She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer.
He also co-wrote a stage production of Richard Savage with J. M. Barrie which premiered at London's Criterion Theatre in 1891.Taylor, James W. The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. (pg. 279) In 1894, the English poet Rosamund Tomson left her husband, artist Arthur Graham Tomson, and eloped with Marriott Watson;Hughes, Linda K. Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters, Ohio University Press, 2005.
The Countess de Ribes, was born Jacqueline de Beaumont, she is the daughterJean de Beaumont of Count Jean de BeaumontJean de Beaumont profile, books.google.fr; accessed 30 August 2015. (1904-2002) Commander of the Legion of Honor, vice president of the International Olympic Committee, president of the French Academy of Sports and chairman of Cercle de l'Union interalliée, and his wife, the Countess (née Paule Rivaud de La Raffinière; 1908-1999), a woman of letters.
Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda Katherine or Catherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after her death. She was highly regarded by many writers of 17th century literature, including John Dryden and John Keats, as being influential.
Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de Custine (18 March 1770 – 13 July 1826) was a French society hostess and woman of letters. Known for her beauty and intelligence, Madame de Abrantès referred to de Custine as "one of those lovely creatures that God gives to the world in a moment of munificence". During the French Revolution she was imprisoned at Carmes Prison. She was freed after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre but was left widowed.
Davout family grave at Père-Lachaise Cemetery The marquise in 1882. during the performance of Édouard Pailleron's comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie at the Théâtre-Français in 1881. All Paris was astonished at the Marquise's similarity with the actress Madeleine Brohan, who played the role of an old duchess with spiritual distributions. Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de Blocqueville (8 July 1815 – 6 October 1892), was a French woman of letters and a poetess.
He was born at Warrington, Lancashire into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians. The best known of these was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature. His father, Dr John Aikin, was a medical doctor, historian, and author. His grandfather, also called John (1713–1780), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.
A well-known woman of letters and an enlightened mind as well as an extremely generous patron, she played a considerable part in the cultural life of the court, especially after her return from exile in 1605. She was a vector of Neoplatonism, which preached the supremacy of platonic love over physical love. While imprisoned, she took advantage of the time to write her Memoirs. She was the first woman to have done so.
Eva König Eva Catharina Lessing (22 March 1736 – 10 January 1778) was a German woman of letters. She was born Eva Catharina Hahn on March 22, 1736 in the southern German city of Heidelberg. In 1756 she married the Hamburg businessman Engelbert König, giving her the married name Eva König. It was in 1767 that she first became friends with the playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who was also godfather to her son Fritz.
Mary Matilda Betham, known by family and friends as Matilda Betham (16 November 1776 – 30 September 1852), was an English diarist, poet, woman of letters, and miniature portrait painter. She exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1804 to 1816. Her first of four books of verses was published in 1797. For six years, she researched notable historical women around the world and published A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country in 1804.
While writing the latter she lived mainly in Manchester, to be near the painter Ford Madox Brown (who was involved in decorating the town hall with frescoes) and his wife. Brown also painted Blind's portrait during this period. Brown and Blind were emotionally intimate from the mid-1870s until Brown's death in 1893, although this devotion caused considerable turmoil in his family.Diedrick, James, Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters (University of Virginia Press, 2016), pp. 145–231.
Her short stories, published much later, would focus on Haiti and exhibit some indigenist values. In 1914, Faubert separated from her husband and settled with her son in Paris. During the war she served as a volunteer in Parisian hospitals and tended to wounded soldiers returning from France’s military frontlines. As a woman of letters she attended lectures and literary events; opened her own salon to receive artists and intellectuals; and frequented feminist and lesbian writers, many also situated in Paris’s bohemian Left Bank.
She continued to write during those years, bringing out L'Etoile Vesper (1944) and Le Fanal Bleu (1949), in which she reflected on the problems of a writer whose inspiration is primarily autobiographical. She was nominated by Claude Farrère for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Upon her death, on 3 August 1954, she was refused a religious funeral by the Catholic Church on account of her divorces, but given a state funeral, the first French woman of letters to be granted the honour, and interred in Père-Lachaise cemetery.Wilson, Scott.
Most of them were written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Shelley's biographies reveal her as a professional woman of letters, contracted to produce several volumes of works and paid well to do so. Her extensive knowledge of history and languages, her ability to tell a gripping biographical narrative, and her interest in the burgeoning field of feminist historiography are reflected in these works. At times Shelley had trouble finding sufficient research materials and had to make do with fewer resources than she would have liked, particularly for the Spanish and Portuguese Lives.
Her father Lindley Hoffman Chapin (1854–1896) was a Manhattan lawyer who had spent his childhood in Paris and Dresden and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1874. Her parents were married on at 421 Fifth Avenue, Cornelia's family home. Several of Katherine's siblings also became artists, including her sisters Marguerite (a woman of letters and later, by marriage, an Italian princess), who was especially close with Katherine; and Cornelia (a sculptor). She would later work to gain recognition in the United States for Marguerite's journal Botteghe Oscure.
This woman of letters was similar to George Sand as they both belonged to the liberalism movement, in particular with her promotion railways or campaigning for the abolition of taxes. Caroline also supported development of Blankenberge. She found beauty in Coq- sur-Mer where the writer Jean d'Ardenne would later live. Victor Hugo invited her on 18 August 1871, along with her husband and one of their daughters, to visit him in exile at his house in Pont de Vianden, while the journalist Jean d'Ardenne stayed there from August 17 to 19.
Victoire, marquise de Créquy Renée-Caroline-Victoire de Froulay de Tessé, marquise de Créquy de Heymont de Canaples d'Ambrières (1704 or 1714–1803), was a French woman of letters, by marriage a member of the Créquy family, which counted several distinguished public servants and prelates, particularly in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. She was friends with d'Alembert, Rousseau and de Meilhan. Although she was arrested, she survived the terror of the French Revolution. The Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy is attributed to her but may be by Cousin de Courchamps.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Thynne; 10 May 1699 - 7 July 1754), later the Duchess of Somerset, was a British courtier and the wife of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who became the 7th Duke of Somerset in 1748. She was also known as a poet, literary patron and woman of letters. Her great-aunt by marriage, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, influenced her literary development. She was also influenced by the poet Elizabeth Singer (later Rowe), with whom she became acquainted in her youth at Longleat, where she grew up.
OCLC 185786618. Four years after her mother died in 1802, her father married Anne- Élisabeth-Élise Petitpain (who became known as Élise Voïart), a woman of letters, 30 years his junior, from Nancy, France who shared with Amable her knowledge of English, German and Italian. After an early poem "Le Narcisse" (The Narcissus) was published in 1816 by Mercure de France (the French Mercury gazette), Amable's work was noticed by Adelaïde Dufrénoy who became a patron and with whom she developed a close friendship. Her poetry was praised for its delicacy by the literary critic Sainte-Beuve.
As James Diedrick remarked, the book "gains both biographical and literary significance when viewed as a 'double-voiced' volume that simultaneously celebrates Mazzini's victorious republicanism and obliquely honors Ferdinand, his ghostly double, whose squandered idealism and sacrifice haunt the margins of its pages."Diedrick, James, Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters (University of Virginia Press, 2016), pp. 30–31. Blind's early political affiliations were shaped by the foreign refugees who frequented her stepfather's house, including Giuseppe Mazzini, for whom she entertained a passionate admiration and about whom she would publish reminiscences in the Fortnightly Review in 1891.ODNB entry.
Etta Federn-Kohlhaas (April 28, 1883 – May 9, 1951) or Marietta Federn, also published as Etta Federn-Kirmsse and Esperanza, was a writer, translator, educator and important woman of letters in pre-war Germany. In the 1920s and 1930s, she was active in the Anarcho-Syndicalism movement in Germany and Spain. Raised in Vienna, she moved in 1905 to Berlin, where she became a literary critic, translator, novelist and biographer. In 1932, as the Nazis rose to power, she moved to Barcelona, where she joined the anarchist-feminist group Mujeres Libres, (Free Women), becoming a writer and educator for the movement.
While in Marseille on November 9, 1622, Louis XIII rode in spite of the rain to Notre-Dame de la Garde. He was received by the governor of the fort, Antoine de Boyer, lord of Bandol. When the latter died on June 29, 1642, Georges de Scudéry, mainly known as a novelist, was named governor, but he did not take up his post until December 1644. He was accompanied there by his sister, Madeleine de Scudéry, a woman of letters who gave in her letters many descriptions of the area as well as of various festivals and ceremonies.
One of the relief workers, a chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve, described how the relief commission had set up a marriage bureau in Broussa to assist Armenian girls, rescued from harems since the wars end, to find husbands willing to take them; according to the chaplain, the bureau was proving quite successful. Another of Black Arrows passengers was an Armenian woman of letters who, after surviving many horrors, had been spared the harem experience by a compassionate Ottoman official who found her a position as a servant in his household. Black Arrows cargoes on this voyage included a gift of a bronze book "from the people of Bulgaria" to Mrs.
Barbauld sat for this Wedgwood cameo in 1775 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly , as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when women rarely wrote professionally. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children; her primers provided a model for more than a century.William McCarthy, "Mother of All Discourses: Anna Barbauld's Lessons for Children"; Culturing the Child, 1690–1914: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers, ed.
Harriett Low Hillard (18 May 1809 – 1877) was an American woman of letters and diarist. From 1829 to 1833 she lived in the Portuguese colony of Macau on the South China coast and she and her sickly aunt became the first American women to go to China. During her stay from 1829 to 1833, she wrote a journal in the form of letters to her older sister Molly (Mary Ann, 1808–1851), and became acquainted with many of the influential individuals in the colony. After her return to the United States, she married and moved to London, returning to New York with her husband and five daughters in 1848.
In 1917, a shortage of office workers throughout New York's Capital District occurred due to the United States entering World War I. Because of this, many positions that had previously been held by men were now opened up to women. As a result, many young women became excited about the opportunity to obtain the skills needed to fill these well-paying office positions. Ms. Augusta Mildred Elley was known in the community as a woman of letters, which was not very common, in those days. She was educated at a private school in New York City, and she held a four-year college degree.
In Paris, at the home of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard he became acquainted with Isabelle de Charriere, a 46-year-old Dutch woman of letters, who later helped publish Rousseau's Confessions, and who knew his uncle David-Louis Constant de Rebecque extremely well by virtue of a 15-year correspondence. While he stayed at her home in Colombier Switzerland, together they wrote an epistolary novel. She acted as a maternal mentor to him until Constant's appointment to the court of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel that required him to move north. He left the court when the War of the First Coalition began in 1792.
Bialosky has been called a "triple threat" as poet, editor, and novelist. Cara Benson in an interview in Bookslut called her "a versatile and accomplished woman of letters. She’s published acclaimed works of poetry, memoir, and fiction, and is an editor and senior executive .... In whichever genre she is writing, to me her work stands out for its compassionate attention to the psyche of the imperfect humans struggling through their lives" Bialosky said her intention is to "probe the human experience"...and "privacy and the distinction between our public selves and private selves." Her free verse poems explore themes of desire, domesticity, and myth.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (; ; 22 April 176614 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël ( , ), was a woman of letters and political theorist of Genevan origin who in her lifetime witnessed (1789–1815) at first- hand the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era up to the French Restoration.Staël, Germaine de, in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. She was present at the Estates General of 1789 and at the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.Bordoni, Silvia (2005) Lord Byron and Germaine de Staël, The University of Nottingham Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1794 and 1810 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time.
He also translated various Latin authors, sometimes very loosely, other times, such as for Seneca's ten tragedies, with fidelity to the original.Terpening, p. 93. Ronnie H. Terpening concludes his book on Dolce by noting that > Truly, then as now, taking into account all his imperfections and those of > the age, this is a worthy career for any man or woman of letters. Without > his unstinting efforts, the history and development of Italian literature > would surely be the poorer. In addition, if what others have said about him > is accurate, Dolce was also a good man, for after “indefatigable” the > adjectives used most often to describe him are “pacifico” and, of course, > “dolce”.
Unirioja service A number of journalistic pieces were published in popular periodicals, especially in Galicia but also in nationwide Spanish press and few in Poland. Most of the authors no longer present Casanova as an extraordinary writer and if focusing on her writings, they rather tend to underline her work as a correspondent and journalist. Instead of a great woman of letters, she is rather presented as an extraordinary person who lived fascinating life, crossed cultural frontiers and was witness to many dramatic developments of her era. She is discussed against the background of feminine movement, gender issues, social change, Russian revolution, nationalism, both world wars, history of journalism, cross-cultural challenges, cultural conflict in Spain, Spanish-Polish or Spanish-Russian relations.
The singular they is the use of this pronoun as a gender-neutral singular rather than as a plural pronoun. The Oxford Dictionaries have an article on the usage, saying that it dates back to the 14th century. The singular pronoun they can be found in formal or official texts. For example, a 2008 amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code contains the following text: > if a peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that, because of their > physical condition, a person may be incapable of providing a breath > sample... (subparagraph 254(3)(a)(ii)) In an article published in The New York Times Magazine in 2009, Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman wrote: > Anne Fisher (1719-78) [an 18th-century British schoolmistress and the first > woman to write an English grammar book] was not only a woman of letters but > also a prosperous entrepreneur.
Sa maison était le rendez-vous des beaux-esprits, mais ses idées ne ressemblaient pas à celles de sa mère, au contraire; elle haïssait les philosophes, et je ne l'en blâme pas. [...] Madame de La Ferté-Imbault avait, à l'époque de notre visite, environ soixante-sept ans, ce qui n'avait rien ôté ni à son esprit ni à la gaieté de sa conversation.» the Princesses Elisabeth and Clotilde de France (sisters of the Duc de Berry, future Louis XVI). She also provided Madame de Marsan with texts for the little comedies played by the princesses to whom the Dauphin and the Dauphine (Marie Antoinette) were present. Madame de La Ferté-Imbault will be invited to the coronation of Louis XVI in Reims on June 11, 1775. Smart, a woman of letters having regularly attended in the salon of her mother most of the great minds of the Enlightenment (Diderot, Voltaire, Fontenelle, Montesquieu who was his tutor, D'Alembert ...), and never remarried despite his young widowhood (and several marriage proposals including that of Stanislas Leszczynski, King of Poland, and father of the Queen of France Marie Leszczynska, who called la marquise "his Imbault" Translated from: Constantin Photiadès, , Plon, 1928, 282 p.

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