Colette wrote later of the way that a free and solitary childhood and adolescence, with plenty of opportunity to develop self-awareness and without any pressure to self-expression, had shaped her mind before the compulsion to...
Education
Phyllis Bottome
Because PB
was so interested in her French classes, her mother permitted Mellie to instruct her at their home. Despite their friendship, there was one matter on which Mellie and Phyllis could not agree—the Dreyfus
Education
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
She knew France and the French language well. Not only did she use France as a setting and French literature as a resource for plots, and subscribe to Rolandi
's French circulating library, but she...
