Madeleine de Scudéry
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Standard Name: Scudéry, Madeleine de
Birth Name: Madeleine de Scudéry
Pseudonym: Monsieur de Scudéry
Used Form: Madeleine de Scudery
MS
is the most famous of the seventeenth-century French authors of heroic romances: fictions of great length, which centred on the lives, loves, and philosophical disquisitions of aristocratic characters. She also wrote poetry and letters.
Connections
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Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
published An Essay upon Glory—translated, as the title-page explains, from the French of Madeleine de Scudéryby a Person of the Same Sex. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Education | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Stéphanie-Félicité was seven when her governess, who was only sixteen, joined the family. In later years she regularly stressed the inadequacy of the way French girls of her class were taught, arguing in Discours sur... |
Education | Hester Mulso Chapone | Hester's early reading included romances such as those of Madeleine de Scudéry
. She taught herself modern languages, music, drawing, and some Latin. At fifteen she was reading theology. |
Education | Elizabeth Delaval | She later recalled how she listened to fairy stories told her by Mrs Carter, how she read out chapters of the Bible in French, and loved the still new and fashionable French romances in their... |
Friends, Associates | Marie de Sévigné | Her close friends included the fiction-writers Madeleine de Scudéry
and Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
(both of whom created literary portraits of her) and the royal mistress, Madame de Maintenon
. Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne, 1981. 35-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Damaris Masham | Her letters to Locke begin under the sign of romance, with the choice of a pseudonym probably taken from Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia and an allusion (turning on the behaviour of people in love)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly
's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope
's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The allegorising of emotional life as geographical features blends the erotic, prudential, and comic. Behind this map stands the famous Carte de tendre in Madeleine de Scudéry
's Clélie, 1654-61. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Hester Pulter | In the same volume as her poems, LHP
's scribe copied the first part of The Unfortunate Florinda. Pulter herself made some corrections, and her unfinished draft of the second part, on loose sheets... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | The title-page (followed by Carol Shiner Wilson
's editiion) says 1715. Such post-dating, says Kathryn King
, is typical of Curll
's publishing practices. Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv. xxiv, 177n1 King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000. 150 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Porter | JP
's original introduction (to which she later added further memories of colourful Scots characters from her childhood in Edinburgh) mentions exhaustive consultation of historians, and makes no direct allusion to the verse romance... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | The volume opens with The Golden Age, conventionally depicted except for the absence of religion and of sexual coyness in women. A Voyage to the Island of Love is AB
's first translation from... |
Timeline
1693: John Dryden published his edition of Juvenal's...
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1693
John Dryden
published his edition of Juvenal
's Satires, translated into English poetry by various hands, including that of Aphra Behn
.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
March 1694: The French poet Boileau published his misogynist...
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March 1694
The French poet Boileau
published his misogynist Satire X, which targets the poet Antoinette Deshoulières
(who had died in February) as a précieuse, and Scudéry
's Clélie as advocating adultery.
Schroder, Volker. “Women Writers Response to Boileaus SATIRE XAmerican Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 26 Mar. 2004.
1754: The Rev. William Dodd published his novel...
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1754
The Rev. William Dodd
published his novel The Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend, a morally oversimplified example of the bad-sister-damned/good-sister-saved plot.
Campbell, Ann M. “Sister Plots: The Double in English Courtship Novels”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 27 Mar. 1999.
1794: Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry...
Women writers item
1794
Sophia, Lady Burrell
(with a play and a poetry volume behind her, and further plays and a novel ahead), published her most unusual work, The Thymbriad, an epyllion based on Xenophon
's Cyropaedia.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
18 (1796): 177
Texts
Scudéry, Madeleine de. An Essay Upon Glory. Translator Elstob, Elizabeth, Printed for J. Morphew, 1708.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Artamène; ou, Le grand Cyrus. A. Courbé, 1653, 10 vols.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Clélie. A. Courbé, 1661, 10 vols.
Scudéry, Madeleine de et al. “Discours de la gloire”. Recueil de quelques pieces de prose et de vers, Pierre Le Petit, 1671.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Ibrahim. A. de Sommauille, 1641, 4 vols.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Les femmes illustres. A. de Sommauille & A. Courbé, 1642.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.