Georges de Scudéry

She was buried at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs Church, where her brother had been buried in 1667.

She was close to her brother Georges , who became a dramatist. She used his name instead of her own on her title-pages until his death in 1667.

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)...

As a consequence of this work's success, MS became popularly known as Sappho or the modern Sappho, particularly in connection with her salon.The Grand Cyrus (often called by its...

EE wrote two dedications to this work: one to her aunt Matilda Elstob , which stands at the head of the volume, and one to her friend Mary Randolph , which comes after the essay...

MS published at Paris (under her brother 's name and in successive volumes) her most famous romance, Artamène; ou, Le grand Cyrus.

MS 's romance Clélie, histoire romaine appeared at Paris, printed in instalments under her brother 's name.

MS began publishing under the name of her brother Georges . The truth spread only gradually; for generations some readers of her works did not know they had been written by a woman.

MS published at Paris, under her brother 's name, Ibrahim; ou, L'illustre Bassa.

MS published at Paris, under her brother 's name, Les femmes illustres; ou, Les harangues héroïques, a collection of speeches ascribed to heroines of the past.

MS published at Paris her Discours de la gloire: anonymously, since her brother (whose name she had used in previous publications) had died.