The Author's Preface to Réflexions begins disarmingly with the writer following her rambling thoughts, but shifts to a muted challenge when she declares herself offended to see Men so blind to their own interest, as...
Textual Features
Hope Mirrlees
HM
sets her narrative during a period of female learning and literary productivity in seventeenth-century France. Madeleine Toqueville, a young girl, moves with her parents from their provincial home to Paris, where Madeleine's erotic...
Occupation
Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
In her second rue de Richelieu, residence, ATL
established a Tuesday salon which became, especially after 1710, a leader in French society and culture. She sought to emulate the salons of the marquise de Rambouillet
Education
Madeleine de Scudéry
MS
received an education in literature and culture by frequenting the society of the Hôtel de Rambouillet
in Paris, run by the Marquise de Rambouillet
(1588-1665): this was the earliest of the famous Paris salons.