Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
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Standard Name: Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de
Birth Name: Marie-Catherine Desjardins de Villedieu
Indexed Name: Mademoiselle Desjardins
Self-constructed Name: Madame de Villedieu
Indexed Name: des Jardins
France as early as the seventeenth century. She was productive in many genres, held a significant place in the development of the novel (epistolary, historical, scandalous, and pseudo-autobiographical, as well as various non-novelistic forms of fiction), and was the first Frenchwoman to have a dramatic work produced by a professional theatre company. Her canon, however, is still disputed, with the authorship of several works in doubt.
was one of the very few women to earn her living by her pen in Timeline
Texts
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Le Journal Amoureux. Paris, 1971, 6 vols.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Les Exiléz de la Cour d’Auguste. Barbin, 1672, 6 vols.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Manlius, tragi-comedie. Gabriel Quinet, 1662.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Oeuvres meslées. Barbin, 1674, 3 vols.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Récit en proze et en vers de la Farce des Précieuses. Claude Barbin, 1660.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Recüeil de poësies. Claude Barbin, 1662.
Préchac, Jean de, and Marie-Catherine de Villedieu. The Disguis’d Prince. Translator Haywood, Eliza, T. Corbett, 1729, 2 vols.