Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Susan Du Verger
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Standard Name: Du Verger, Susan
Used Form: Suzanne Du Vergerre
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published between 1639 and 1653 two translations of fiction (the first a collection of early novels or romances) and an unusual critique of a work by Margaret Cavendish, then Marchioness of Newcastle
.
Literary historian Danielle Clarke
spells her name Suzanne Du Vergerre
, though the title page of Admirable Events gives Susan Du Verger.
Clarke, Danielle. The Politics of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Longman, 2001.
This book had the unusual distinction of a critical response, within two years, from another woman. Susan Du Verger
, however, evinces less interest in Cavendish as a literary writer than in her specific opinion...
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Texts
Camus, Jean-Pierre. Admirable Events. Translator Du Verger, Susan, T. Harper for W. Brooks, 1639.
Du Verger, Susan. Du Vergers Humble Reflections. 1657.