Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy

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Standard Name: Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d'
Birth Name: Marie-Catherine Lejumel de Barneville
Married Name: Marie-Catherine La Mothe
Titled: Marie-Catherine La Mothe, baronne d'Aulnoy
Titled: Marie-Catherine La Mothe, comtesse d'Aulnoy
Indexed Name: Countess Daulnoy
Indexed Name: Madame D'Aulnoy
Used Form: Madame d's Aulnoy
Used Form: a person of quality
Used Form: the Countess d'Anois
Used Form: the Countess of Dunois
MCA , novelist or historical romance-writer, travel-writer, author of fairy tales and scandal fictions, was highly influential in each of these roles in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, as well as her native France. She belonged in the popular tradition, as is shown by the constant reshuffling of her writings, complete or in part, sometimes spliced with the writings of others. Where no copies of a particular printing survive, they were probably read to pieces. New translations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show her continuing importance to women writing in English.
Head-and-shoulders engraving of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy after a painting by Elisabeth Cheron. She wears a plain V-neck bodice with no jewellery except a metal bandolier; her hair is brushed back and frizzed. The oval portrait stands on a plinth inscribed: "Marie Catherine le Jumel de Berneville Comtesse d’Aulnoi" with the date of her death.

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Textual Production Samuel Johnson
The idea that Johnson modelled the tripartite structure of his most substantial lives on a work by Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy is probably a mistake. The Recueils des plus belles pièces des poëtes François, 1692...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Thicknesse
Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Kavanagh
In her preface JK explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Matilda Betham
MMB also has strong coverage of writers, scholars, and activists, like Anne Askew , Mary Astell (whose uncle she credits with having generously tutored her), and Ann Bacon . She seems to have excluded the...

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