Marie de France
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It is making an assumption to argue that a single individual composed the body of work traditionally attributed to someone whom modern readers have called
. But one or possibly more women named Marie, writing in the French language in twelfth-century England, composed lais (narrative poems), fables, and a prose saint's life (this last work in translation). Her work was influential for Middle English literature, and her life-story was an inspiration to women writing in the early nineteenth century.- BirthName: Marie
- Indexed: Marie de France
Biography
Origins
It seems that MF must have been born before about 1150, in France, perhaps in the metropolitan region of the Île de France, or else in Brittany.