When the first volume appeared, the noted critic Pierre Bayle
commented in his Nouvelles de la République des Lettres (October 1684) that Dacier (in the words of Caryl L. Lloyd
in the Dictionary of Literary...
Literary responses
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Literary historian Pierre Bayle
acknowledged MCV
's invention of this new genre.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale.
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Textual Production
Mary Astell
MA
was an inveterate annotator of books; she had some volumes bound with blank pages added for her notes. Among occasional writings produced by her friendship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
were angry marginalia in...
